protz
Newsgroups shouldn't be sorted by their abbreviated name
Sorting is done using the abbreviated newsgroup name. That leads to very strange sorting. The following is a results of sorting by abbreviated names: gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel gmane.comp.hardware.avr.gcc gmane.comp.handhelds.android.platform
However, sorting by full name would yield: gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel gmane.comp.handhelds.android.platform gmane.comp.hardware.avr.gcc
I can disable the abbreviation of names in Thunderbird. But then the names are large, Thunderbird becomes unusable.
Ok, I'll try to look into it when I have some time. I guess I'm just using the display name instead of the real name, so I don't know if it's possible to easily recover the full name of the newsgroups. I suggest you manually sort your newsgroups in the meanwhile...
Still not fixed in 1.0. Also your comment "As I have no plans to move this addon forward, I figured out this would be a good time to name it 1.0" makes me wonder, whether you're still planning to fix this.
Is the abbreviation an option in Thunderbird? If yes, where can I find it? Thanks for reminding me, I had indeed forgotten this issue. However, being aggressive won't help! :-)
Am 27.06.2011 08:15, schrieb protz:
Is the abbreviation an option in Thunderbird? If yes, where can I find it? Thanks for reminding me, I had indeed forgotten this issue. However, being aggressive won't help! :-)
The option is mail.server.default.abbreviate It's true by default.
I'm talking about newsgroup accounts. As long as I know Thunderbird, it has always shown short newsgroup names. For example "g.c.a.devel" instead of "gmane.comp.apache.devel". (The latter is a newsgroup on news.gmane.org with which you can access your favorite mailing lists)
Regards, Sven