From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3 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:
I am, unfortunately, swamped. Seriously... Pan is being transitioned to Fedora Extras, so here's hoping that it finds capable hands.
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.)