GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 119518
Manual decoding of multipart binaries
Last modified: 2006-06-18 05:04:43 UTC
This is in response to the discussion "RFC: Detecting multiparts" on the pan-users and pan-devel mailing lists. As there's no proper standard for specifying/determining multiparts, there will always be some cases Pan will fail to detect automatically. I therefore request a feature for manual decoding of multiparts, like Gravity and (Free) Agent have. In Gravity, it works like this: - Select the parts (articles) to decode. - Select "Manual Decode" in the menu (or Ctrl-M). - A new window pops up, listing the parts. - Move parts up or down in the popup window to reorder, if necessary, and then click OK.
Probably sometime during 0.14.x, but 0.14.2 is already full.
In the pan-devel mailing list, Duncan wrote: > [...] It would also be useful to be able to decode a post > with parts missing, provided the first part is there. [...] The suggested manual decode command should allow you to combine incomplete multiparts. Just select the parts you wish to combine, and select "Manual Decode". (I think Gravity and/or Agent can do this, but it's quite a while since I tried.) > [...] It would be nice to be able to tell PAN that when I tell > it to d/l selected posts, and a multi-parter is selected but > displayed as only a single part thus only has a single part > selected, that yes, I STILL want all those parts d/led. [...] That could be achieved with a "Delete" button in rearrange window for the suggested Manual Decode. The window would then contain all parts by default.
Chris Petersen on pan-users: I miss this feature of newswatcher (mac).. it would thread (but not "join") possible multipart binaries, and I could select the thread and "extract binaries" (essentially shift-S in pan), or I could manually select a group of articles, and apply a "manual extract" command that brought up a dialog where I could reorder the parts as I wished (sometimes they were out of order, etc), and then extract them.
Fixed in CVS: http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=action.c&rev1=1.5&rev2=1.6&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=action.h&rev1=1.5&rev2=1.6&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=article-actions.c&rev1=1.62&rev2=1.63&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=article-actions.h&rev1=1.18&rev2=1.19&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=articlelist.c&rev1=1.663&rev2=1.664&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=gui.c&rev1=1.596&rev2=1.597&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=save-ui.c&rev1=1.40&rev2=1.41&root=/cvs/gnome http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=save-ui.h&rev1=1.4&rev2=1.5&root=/cvs/gnome
*** Bug 107647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***