Mark Hammond wrote:
> Johnny Yen wrote:
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>> I've noticed that all the newsgroup names (those that I could get)
>> are abbreviated. BAD idea.
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> GREAT idea, IMO :-)
I like the idea. for most newsgroups, the "interesting stuff" is the
last part.
Oleg Rekutin and I implemented it, see
nsMsgNewsFolder::AbbreviatePrettyName().
> I have no idea which groups are which unless I
>
>> hover my mouse... Who's idea what this??
>>
>> Fix in the works?
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>
> Hope not! Maybe this could be a preference? Maybe it already is :-)
It is a preference, but not in the UI. (I thought at one point it was,
but I can't find it now.)
You can turn it off on a per server basis. By default, it is on. to
change the default, add this to your prefs.js file:
user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate",true);
If you want to override it per server, replace "default" with the server
id, example "server3".
Credit to Oleg, he made AbbreviatePrettyName() configurable. Right now, in
nsMsgNewsFolder::GetAbbreviatedName(), I've harded to abbreviate all but
last part of the newsgroup name. One day, this too could be
configurable by a pref, so you could abbreviate all but last two or
three parts.
I'll log two bugs on this:
1) add UI to disable / enable name abbreviation
2) add a pref and UI for customizable abbreviation levels.
-Seth
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> Mark.
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