From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52162 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Overbearing undownloaded face Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 18:16:53 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051924598 14019 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 01:16:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 01:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M705@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 03 03:16:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BldQ-0003dJ-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 03:16:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BleO-00042g-00; Fri, 02 May 2003 20:17:16 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BleK-00042b-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 May 2003 20:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 62842 invoked by alias); 3 May 2003 01:17:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 62837 invoked from network); 3 May 2003 01:17:12 -0000 Original-Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (207.115.63.77) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 3 May 2003 01:17:12 -0000 Original-Received: from sbcglobal.net (adsl-63-202-233-138.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.202.233.138]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h431GxBU074782; Fri, 2 May 2003 21:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from sbcglobal.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sbcglobal.net (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h431GwRY000571; Fri, 2 May 2003 18:16:58 -0700 Original-Received: (from hgp@localhost) by sbcglobal.net (8.12.8/8.12.5/Submit) id h431GrPN000569; Fri, 2 May 2003 18:16:53 -0700 Original-To: Kevin Greiner In-Reply-To: (Kevin Greiner's message of "Fri, 02 May 2003 16:12:49 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52162 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52162 Kevin Greiner writes: > normal face does appear but only on articles that have absolutely no > marks. So if you tick several articles because they appear > interesting, you loose the warning that those articles are unavailable > while offline. Still haven't tried Simons patch, but will shortly... Kevin, wouldn't it make more sense to use summary-format to provide warning as to [un]downloaded status? Using the face overpowers potentially usefull faces on undownloaded messages in groups where the user doesn't intend to download but does intend to read.