Garth Wallace wrote:
>>1) How does one trigger it to go fetch new headers for all subscribed
>>groups?
>
> Well, you can close and open the list of groups
> under a server. That only fetches headers for the
> groups under that server, but unless you use a
> lot of different servers it should do the trick.
I currently have 3, so its not *too* bad, but a more direct mechanism
would be handy.
>
>>2) Can one choose the compression on the group names in the mail folders
>>pane? If the rightmost field of the group name is less than meaningful,
>>then it can be hard to recognise: a.b.c.general... for example.
>>
>
> There's no UI, but you can turn it off in prefs.js.
So how do I push for this (and others) to be an official (??) feature
request? Is this post enough - or is posting to wishlist ng required?
>>8) The ability to select how threads are recognised would be
>>"interesting". eg. by message reference, or subject, or other... I'm
>>impressed at the way it does recognise threads compared to others...
>
> Newsgroup threading is done by Message-IDs in the
> References header, as per the spec, AFAICT.
I think more choices in the way threading is done would be useful.
>
>>7) On my Durn800/256MB/Win2K box, it takes a reasonable amount of time
>>to switch between groups & do most things. I've seen discussions in
>>other groups about this in general - is the news client (mail too I
>>suppose) expecting to see a speed increase in upcoming releases?
>
> Do you mean a speed increase in general, or
> an abrupt increase in speed? In general, I
> would expect it to continue to get faster (as
> performance-related bugs get fixed). As for
> a major jump, I dunno.
I definitely anticipate an incremental increase in performance, but I
was actually referring to a more abrupt one. Some things that need
improvement just seem way behind compared to other dedicated clients.
eg. clicking on emails in my inbox or pre-downloaded newsgroup messages
takes somewhere around 0.5 seconds to display the preview - AgentNews
and Outlook do this more-or-less instantaneously on the same box. I'm
not bagging Mozilla - just trying to put it all into perspective.
Regards, sTu.
