Re: 40tude - changing pane view

On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:48:57 -0400, Gember Breuk wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:45 -0500, Chris Lael wrote:

Gember Breuk wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:41:34 -0500, Ron Ford wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:52:13 -0400, Gember Breuk wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:06:35 -0500, Ron Ford wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 15:15:39 +1000, Rom wrote:

On 21 May 2008 14:34:58 GMT, elaich wrote:

I'm off to work
now, so no time to explore further. If I can't change it to open up groups,
and then unread articles in a full screen view like I do in Xnews, I won't
even bother. I detest having my viewing space split into subpanes.

Panes can be zoomed in, as well as navigate and used in zoomed mode.
You can click to [un]zoom panes with the N H A (Newsgroup,
Headerslist, Article panes) on the status bar, and "Navigate > Pane
navigation > flyout menu"

I just went through this under Rom's tutelage. My preference was opposite
to that of OP's but no matter. In order to get what I want, I changed the
window layout and clicked the N H and A buttons appropriately. The other
trick is to look up how they're saved in settings.ini.

The other thing OP might want to do is check the box that comes up in the
window layout that says "show groups or headers."

My point is that it took a fair amount of fiddling and, unfortunately, a
small amount of frustration. I was comparing the functionality to OE, so I
probably had more reason to switch than does OP. Good luck

One of the best things about Dialog is that it gives you so many
choices. One of the worst things about Dialog is that it gives you so
many choices. :-))

Right. One of the things I find frustrating is that on the navigation
pull-down, they give you 8 choices of which message to read next, none of
which is the next message, whether you've read it or not. With OE, the
previous and next buttons have nothing to do with whether a message has
been read.

Maybe the underlying problem is that have no sensical way of having dialog
remember what I've read and what I haven't. If I ask for more headers
without having read the new messages, these are marked read.

I think I'll understand this better once I get a better grip on scoring.

Take a careful look at all the entries in the "General settings" section
under "Settings". I think the ones you want to change to leave unread
messages alone are in the "Navigation" (near the bottom) and "Misc"
sections.

Check under Group > Default group options > Mark Read.

Yes, there too! :-)

I think that'll do it. Since I just downloaded all the headers for my
groups, I'll have to wait and see if it works, but I'm confident that
that's the fix. Thx.
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Ron ford
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