Justin wrote:
> Sorry if this has been posted before. But I can't see it here, or in the
> news/mail UI specs at the mozilla site.
>
> What the newsreader really needs are folders. I subscribe to quite a few
> various newsgroups. Not in one newsreader I have ever used, have I been able
> to create folders to sort them all out, like you can do with e-mail folders
> etc. I think it would be really handy.
>
> Does anyone else see this as a good, worthwhile feature?
I'd love this feature, but there are two ways it might be implemented.
You seem to be suggesting that you'd like to create a tree of folders
with which each group could be associated, such as:
v-[ ] News
v-[ ] Computing
| v-[ ] Browsers
| >-[ ] Mozilla
v-[ ] UK Groups
v-[ ] Computing
| |-[ ] uk.comp.homebuilt
| '-[ ] uk.comp.misc
v-[ ] Local Groups
|-[ ] uk.local.bristol
>-[ ] uk.local.london
This can be likened to the Virstual folders that have been proposed in
several places, but I'm not sure if any progress has been made on them.
The other way simply takes the folder names from the existing hierarchy,
e.g.:
v-[ ] news.f9.net.uk
v-[ ] netscape
| v-[ ] public
| >-[ ] mozilla
v-[ ] uk
v-[ ] comp
| |-[ ] homebuilt
| '-[ ] misc
v-[ ] local
|-[ ] bristol
>-[ ] london
This is probably easier to implement, in that it doesn't need virtual
folders to be implemented first, and also doesn't need to maintain
mappings between newsgroups and their virtual folder. See also
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38931
- Iain.
