Bug 156439

Summary: Directory navigation requires backslash to function properly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Olsen <alan>
Component: panAssignee: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
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URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128215
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Description Alan Olsen 2005-04-30 05:54:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
This is a well-known bug in Pan.  It was fixed in the development version over a year ago.

Quoting from the Bugzilla entry on Gnome.org:

When saving to a directory, pan does not provide the backslash after the
directory name. A subsequent "save to" a different directory, necessitates
appending the slash after the previous directory name, otherwise the user 
cannot properly navigate the ~/News/Pan directory structure.

e.g. 
1) Save 1st attachment to ~/News/Pan/kittens/ <--note the trailing slash.
2) Now wish to save the *next attachment* to a different subdirectory.
However, when I select "save attachment as" the dialog window shows
"~/News/Pan/kittens", *instead of "~/News/Pan/kittens/ . 
The user either has to add the trailing slash, *or* remove the last
(i.e. most recent) subdirectory name, in order to properly navigate the
Pan subdirectories.

This bug is consistent and reproducible.

This is not a serious bug.  It is just damned annoying.  (And there is a known patch for it.)  Actually Pan should be built out of the cvs tree.  The version shipped is over two years old.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pan-0.14.2-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Described in the description.  Create a directory. Save something.  Try to save something else to a different directory.  The last entry in the list of directories will be treated as a selected file, not a directory.
  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2005-06-07 22:53:18 UTC 
I am, unfortunately, swamped. Seriously...
Pan is being transitioned to Fedora Extras, so here's hoping that it
finds capable hands.
Comment 2 Alan Olsen 2005-06-08 01:25:21 UTC 
I will put together a set of patches to fix the problem(s) and sumbit them.  I
will also be testing the version in CVS for my own use.  If it is worthwhile, I
will post spec file and patches for that as well.

Pan is a very useful newsreader.  It is the best client I have found for Linux.
 Unfortunatly the development on it has slowed to a crawl.  (Maybe why it is
going to extras.)