GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 80366
Pan needs to automatically download and decode multi-part images
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
This report is based on an email I sent to Charles; he has requested I make it into a bug report. Hi James, Could you fill out a bug report for this request so that it doesn't get lost? I'll set it for a 0.12.1 milestone. cheers, Charles On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, James Green wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to request a feature based on a problem I see. > > When viewing a binary newsgroup, one based on images, sometimes sets of > images can be posted with each post having more than one part. You can > end up with posts like: > > foo.jpg (1/2) > > When you click it, you download only the first part. This seems like the > "right thing to do" from a technical standpoint, however the user has to > decode both parts and view from his hard disk the image, which isn't > very helpful. > > How about coding pan such that if the binary attachment if an image > (determined by filename extension), -all- parts are downloaded to the > cache and run through the decoder to view the actual image 'inline'? > > That would be so much more useful and less frustrating than it is today.
Just a status update, the code to treat dual-post images as a single post for displaying is done, and that's the trickiest part of this... the other part is to have articlelist queue the right downloads and show them..
moving feature requests to 0.13.0. 0.12.x releases will be used for bugfixes.