13767 - news should have plaintext compose as default

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris McAfee]

news should have plaintext compose as the default.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Are we going to do this?  The user sets the pref for the type of compose window
s/he wants and it may be strange to see a different compose window come up for
news (although I understand your reason for wanting to do so).

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

News should have it's own default.
Nobody posts HTML to newsgroups, I would consider
that not-good netiquette.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking m12.

accepting.

Comment 4

[pmock]

changing QA assigned to [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

*** Bug 17124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.  sorry it took so long.  it was a three line fix in a js file.
one step bug to getting our GNKSA!

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking fixed.

Comment 8

[pmock]

I can still reproduce this problem on a new profile and migrated profile using
win32 and linux 2000-01-03-09-m13.

After creating a new profile that contains one news server (nothing else), I
added a newsgroup and started a new message.  The html compose window appears.
After migrating a profile, the default compose window that comes up is HTML.

It does not matter if I am viewing a new message or not.  I looked at the
prefs.js file and the user_pref for compose_html is set to true on migrated
profiles. On new profiles, there is no user_pref for compose_html which mean the
default is being used.

I used the win32 and linux build found on sweetlou:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/2000-01-03-09-M13/sea
monkey32e.exe
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux_glibc/2.2/x86/2000-01-03-08-
M13/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

On Mac, due to a profile manager problem, I could only test this on migrated
profile.  A hmtl compose window is the default for news.
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/2000-01-03-08-M13/NSMacIn
staller-M13.sea.bin

Re-open bug.

Comment 9

[pmock]

clearing resolution

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed it for real this time.

I'm so lame.

Comment 11

[laurel]

For new NNTP accounts and new NNTP profiles, plain text compose is default.

For migrated profiles, if the 4.x profile was set to html (there was only one
identity/account and one global formatting pref) any news accounts will get html
compose after migration.  I checked with seth about this and that's the way
migrated profiles will be ... what you had is what you get in 5.0/6.0.

OK using 2000-03-07-09m15 commercial builds linux rh6.0, mac OS 9.0, NT 4.0