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4. Working with KNode
4.1. The main window
The main window is the window, that appears when KNode is started. It consists of:
The main view
The main view is divided into three panes :
The Groups-Pane (left pane)
This pane contains a list of newsgroups and three folders for your own messages. To select a newsgroup for reading just
higlhight the list-item by clicking on it. If you rightclick on the item, a popupmenu appears, that gives you a quick access to some
often-used commands.
The list-items provide some useful information about the groups. You can see the total number of articles in the group and how many of them
are unread. The items do also indicate, when a group has new articles in it. In this case they are displayed with a bold font.
The Articles-Pane (upper right pane)
This pane shows a list of the articles in the currently selected group. Each article is represented by one list-item, that provides information
about the subject, the author, the score and the date of the article. Therefore the list is divided into 4 columns. You can set the size of the
columns by resizing the corresponding header-section.
To sort the list click on the header-section of the column you want the sort by.
Clicking once will sort the list ascending, clicking twice descending.
The article-list also gives some additional information about the articles and threads:
- unread articles are marked with
, read articles with 
- New articles are displayed with a bold font
- a thread with no more unread articles is displayed with grey text
- threads with new unread articles are marked with

- watched threads (score=100) are marked with

If you rightclick on an article, a popupmeu appears, that gives you quick access to often used commands.
Since KNode uses threading infos, the article-list can display threads
in a tree-like structure.
The Message-Pane (lower right pane)
This Pane displays the currently selected article. The article is basically divided into three parts: the header, the body, the optional signature.
In the header-part informations about the article are shown, like subject, author etc. The author's name is respented by a hyperlink.
Clicking on this link opens a new mail-message to the authors email-adress.
At the bottom of the header-part are up to 5 links representing the references of the article. Clicking on one of them displays the
corresponding reference-article (if present) and highlights the appropriate item in the article-list. If you use the middle button, the reference
is opened in a new window.
Right below the header follows the body of the article. There is not much to say about this part, except that KNode
can display quoted text in up to 3 different colors.
Finally at the bottom of the page the authors signature is displayed, if present. This part is separated by a thin horizontal line.
You can choose, whether you want to see the signature or not.
For more information see the
Customizing KNode section.
The menubar
- File
- Save as : save the currently selected article as a textfile
- Print : print the contents of the Message-Pane
- (Dis-)Connect : connect to or disconnect from the server
- Download all : check for new articles in every group and download them
- Exit : Guess what ;-)
- Group
- Properties : open the property-dialog for the current group. This option
is also available in the groups popup-menu.
- Get new articles: check for new articles in the current group and download them
- Expire now: delete expired articles in the current group
- Resort: resort the threads in this group
- Subscribe: open the newsgroups-dialog
- Unsubscribe: unsubscribe from the current group and delete all saved articles
- Mark all as read: mark all articles in the current group as read
- Mark all as unread: mark all articles in the current group as unread
- Folders
- Empty Folder: delete all messages in the current folder. This option is also availabel in the folders popup-menu.
- Article
- Post new article: create a new article and fill in the name of the current group, if one is selected
- Post reply: post a reply to the current article. This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Mail reply: mail a reply to the email adress of the current articles author. This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Mark
- as read: mark the current article as read. This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- as unread: mark the current article as unread. This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Thread
- Mark as read: mark the thread the current article is in as read.
This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Mark as unread: mark the thread the current article is in as unread.
This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Set score: open the score-dialog for the
thread the current article is in. This option is also available in the articles popup-menu.
- Expand: show all children of the current article
- Collapse: hide all children of the current article
- Edit: open a composer window for the currently selected message
- Delete: delete the currently selected message
- Send
- Outbox: send all pending messages in the outbox
- Now: send the currently selected message now
- Later: send the currently selected message later, ie. move it to the outbox
- Goto
- Next article: goto the article right after the current
- Previous article: goto the article right before the current
- Next unread article: goto the next unread article in the current thread
- Next unread thread: goto the next thread with unread articles
- Next Group: goto the next group
- Previous Group: goto the previous group
- View
- Show threads: show the thread-trees in the article-list
- Expand all: expand all threads in the article-list
- Collapse all: collapse all threads in the article-list
- Refresh: refresh the article-list according to the current filter
- Headers
- short: show only the minimum header-lines in the Message-Pane
- normal: show the most intersting header-lines in the Message-Pane
- all: show all available header-lines the Message-Pane
- Filter : here you can select the filter for the article list
- Sort
- Subject: sort the article-list by subject
- From: sort the article-list by From
- Score: sort the article-list by Score
- Date: sort the article-list by Date
- Statusbar: show/hide the Statusbar
- Toolbar: show/hide the Toolbar
- Options
The toolbar
The toolbar provides an easy and fast access to often used menu-items :
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connect to, disconnect from the server |
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check for new articles in all groups and download them |
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post a new article |
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post a reply to the current article |
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mail a reply to the author of the current article |
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goto the next unread article |
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goto the next unread thread |
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set a filter for the article-list |
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refresh the article-list according to the current filter |
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show the group-dialog |
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open the preferences-dialog |
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