Scott Putterman wrote:
> I'll add my 2 cents. I helped turn this on in the thread pane and I
> really like this. Before this fix you could never see your
> newsgroups anyway because you'd have to make your folder pane really
> large to see something like netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news. As
> Seth mentions in a later post, we used to have a pref in the UI, in
> fact I think it also let you customize the number of levels you
> wanted to abbreviate, so you could have n.p.m.mail-news, or
> n.p.mozilla.mail-news, etc. I'm sure the pref got taken out of the
> UI for usability reasons. Though, a pref for abbreviating in the UI
> shouldn't be too confusing (where as a pref for the number of abbrev
> levels might be).
What about making it automatic? 4.x abbreviated by cutting and adding
"..." in the middle, depending on how large the folder pane way.
Why not do something similar? You show as much as possible from the
name, and if not all of it fits into the pane, you abbreviate from the
left (or right: pref!) in the newsgroup style. E.g.
+-------------------+
|n.public.mozilla.qa|
|n.p.m.mail-news |
|netscape.test |
etc.
