GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 348445
Can't select multiple groups
Last modified: 2007-05-09 03:05:13 UTC
Pan is missing the ability to select multiple groups at once. It would be very useful e.g. when subscribing several groups or changing their properties.
The work-to-benefit ratio on this is pretty high IMO.
Understanding that it's a difficult change and that it may never get implemented, please allow me to second and third this request.
:)
0.104 observation: If this isn't going to make it into 1.0, "Get new headers for selected groups" needs a slight tweak. =8^) Obvious: s/groups/group/ Maybe: s/selected/active/
*** Bug 348741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Duncan: agree with s/groups/group/ However selected != active... IMO a user might interpret 'active' as being 'the group being shown in the header pane'
*** Bug 348951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am going to vote for this bug.
I vote for this one too. Thanks!
I vote for this feature.
Yeah, me three votes for this!
*** Bug 350123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is another side effect of this, as far as I can see. I can't choose to "mark group read" across multiple groups at the same time. This is *incredibly* annoying - I subscribe to 20 or 30 news groups. Some I always read, others I read when I get a chance. With the 0.100+ versions I have to individually select each group to "mark as read" - I can't just "catch up" everything in one go. (Or if I can, it's somewhat hidden.) Perhaps (just for this case) the "Subscribed groups" node in the group list could have its own menu which included "mark all as read"?
Created attachment 73882 [details] [review] 0.115 patch This patch doesn't enable multiple group selection. It only applies Duncan's suggestion in comment #4 about the misleading syntax of `Selected Groups' in the menus.
Please consider this a vote for this bug. It would be GREATLY appreciated by this Pan user if you could work on this post-1.0. I realize that you've pretty much frozen features for pre-1.0 and are just working on squashing bugs, so I know this bug is pretty much going to be ignored, at least until post-1.0 release. :-)
*sigh* that's, what, ten votes for this feature? Marking as assigned, flagging for 1.1.
(In reply to comment #16) > *sigh* that's, what, ten votes for this feature? > > Marking as assigned, flagging for 1.1. > Charles: Just a quick note to agree with the ten others and that a way to multiply select groups would be great. Thanks to you all for a great job so far! BTW, I am using Pan 0.18 on Mandriva Linux 2007 and it's great! :-) Keith
I don't know if further votes make any difference since it's already been assigned, but I'm also for fixing it. (I'm on Gentoo Linux, if it matters.)
I don't understand why it was taken out in the first place. Any list that does not stipulate one selection only needsd multiple selection. Control or shift depending on the type of selection is standard practice and not something you would expect to be dropped. I now have to mess around with Ubuntu to install an old version that works correctly and force Ubuntu not to update it. What a pain.
(In reply to comment #19) > I don't understand why it was taken out in the first place. It wasn't exactly taken out. New-pan (0.90+) is a ground-up rewrite, new language (C++, old was C), new code. The feature simply hasn't been coded back into the rewrite yet. There are apparently some problems with the way the GTK widget works that make adding multi-select "non-trivial", as Charles says. It may be that a different widget will need to be chosen and the code rejiggered to work with it. Either that, or the deficiencies of the current widget will have to be "manually" coded around. FWIW, Charles has always been quite open to patches. As he has made it plain he's not looking forward to working on this, and as from your comment it appears you believe it to be trivial, if you could code up a patch adding the functionality without killing anything else, I'm sure he'd love to see it. =8^) I know I would, as I miss the functionality too, but unfortunately I'm not a coder much beyond bash. =8^( Duncan
Checked in in svn revision 263.
Happy happy, joy joy! =8^) Thanks! Duncan
I don't actually know what 'Checked in in svn revision 263' means but I'll assume it's good judging by Duncan's reaction. I'll hazzard a guess and say it's been resolved and will permiate to the stable version in due course? If so cool and thank you Charles.
It's in 0.129, which was released earlier today. :)
Great patch Charles, though the string might need to be changed back to being groups again. ;-)
Done, thanks. =)