Seth Spitzer wrote:
> Jeremy Taylor wrote:
>> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>>> 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:
>> On an individual group basis would be nicer I think - that way i can
>> distinguish better between several "*.general" groups.
>
> If you can think of a good way in the UI to allow the user to do this,
I would suggest a 2-step thing, the first being the thing already
mentioned, on the Preferences:
[tick] Abbreviate newsgroup names
this would make the default abbreviation on all groups as they are now
The next user action to customise this on a per-group basis would be to
right-click the newsgroup and choose:
Customise newsgroup name abbrev
from the menu
this would pop up a dialog box and provide a list/combobox of the
options, eg:
n.p.m.mail-news
n.p.mozilla.mail-news
n.public.mozilla.mail-news
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
> please let me know. Patches to implement it are welcomed, too.
I'd love to help, but I'm not that confident you'd want my help... I
haven't set myself up to build mozilla or play with the code... I've not
even had a peek under the bonnet yet. I've got a bit of a steep learning
curve ahead of me if I do go from 'lurker' to 'helper'.
>
>> What bugs me about the names at the moment is that because of the
>> abbreviations they are ordered really dumb - instead of nz.comp and
>> nz.wanted being together, they are separated by
>> netscape.public.general, netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news,
>> nz.reg.christchurch.general, and nz.reg.hawkes-bay.general.
>
>
> Newsgroups for a given server are listed alphabetical. Are you seeing
> something else?
They are alphabetical, but not from the lowest level back to the
highest. Using the example I mentioned, this is what I see in NS6:
n.comp
n.p.general
n.p.m.mail-news
n.r.c.general
n.r.h-b.general
n.wanted
Whereas I would expect them to keep to the hierarchy structure of the
newsgroups like this:
n.p.general
n.p.m.mail-news
n.comp
n.wanted
n.r.c.general
n.r.h-b.general
>
>> the order should be user modifiable. IMHO.
>
>
> I thought there was a bug on this, but I couldn't find it. Please log
> it and assign it to me. The user should be able to reorder newsgroups.
>
> -Seth
I'm only using NS6, not a specific M-build... should I set myself up
with an actual Mozilla build first before I comment on that, or should I
just refer to M18 or some other as equivalent to what I have been using?
Jeremy
