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).
Thanks, but as it is, I find the abbreviating of the names totally
useless. I cannot tell where I am. I would hate to give up N6 News
over this, but, again, I cannot easily tell where I am by the last few
names. I've used (and am using) most all of the newsreaders out there
and have never had a problem with long names. If I can't see the end of
the list in the pane, I scroll over to get a look and then scroll back.
End of problem.
A simple option to turn this ON or OFF is needed. I don't really care
about sorting. Make your life easier and just do an ON and OFF toggle.
N6 can sort them alphebetically. Who needs more with Mozilla's limited
resorces? This is fine.
But please let me toggle the abbreviations off! I'm sure I'm not alone
on this! (I'm really trying to like N6!)
jy
> Addressing a message later in this thread, we've had a bug for a while
> to not sort the newsgroup names. Previous Netscape versions kept the
> newsgroups in the order you added them. It was easier to keep
> everything sorted to make everything consistent with the mail folders.
> It wouldn't be too hard to add the non-sorting behavior to newsgroups.
> If you notice, we already don't sort mail folders completely
> alphabetically (Inbox comes on top, then Sent, Trash, etc, followed by a
> list of alphabetical non-special folders). If we're sorting
> alphabetically, it might make more sense to sort by real name vs
> abbreviated name. That also would not be too hard to do.
>
> Scott
>
> Johnny Yen wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that all the newsgroup names (those that I could get) are
> > abbreviated. BAD idea. I have no idea which groups are which unless
> > I hover my mouse... Who's idea what this??
> >
> > Fix in the works?
> >
> > jy
> >
