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From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
Cc: Ding <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: gnus-group-suspend forgets "readedness" of newly read articles
Date: 07 Feb 2001 20:17:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u266t1lm.fsf@julian.uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ddq1eay.fsf@home.com> (Dmitry Yaitskov's message of "07 Feb 2001 14:30:29 -0500")

Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:

> Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
> 
> > Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> > > There may be a technical reason for what's happening but it is
> > > still bad UI.
> > 
> > I guess I'd have to ask what you were doing back in *Group*, and
> > outside an "unresolved" (unaccounted-for?) *Summary*, in the first
> > place so that the question can even arise.
> 
> Sorry, but that's BS. I am not sure what you mean by Gnus' "intended
> UI mechanism". Multi-window, multi-process GUI systems were invented
> to allow the user to switch from one activity/window/etc. to another
> without concern for the "intended UI mechanism"

I agree with Dmitry here.  The behavior of gnus-group-exit (bound to
`q' in the *Group* buffer) suggests that Gnus knows how to handle
active summary buffers.  Why doesn't gnus-group-suspend call
gnus-offer-save-summaries like gnus-group-exit does?

Dan



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-08  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-07 16:57 Dmitry Yaitskov
2001-02-07 17:03 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-02-07 17:29   ` Toby Speight
2001-02-07 18:02     ` Dmitry Yaitskov
2001-02-07 18:03   ` Dmitry Yaitskov
2001-02-07 18:50     ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-02-07 18:59       ` Paul Jarc
2001-02-07 19:30       ` Dmitry Yaitskov
2001-02-08  1:17         ` Dan Christensen [this message]
2001-02-08  2:19           ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-02-11 15:03           ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-02-08  0:08       ` Andreas Fuchs
2001-02-08 15:43   ` Kai Großjohann

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