17556 - make newsgroups show abbreviated names in folder tree.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[scottputterman]

I couldn't find a bug for this already so I'm creating a new one.  Currently,
the folder pane shows newsgroups with their full names.  Instead we can
conserve space by showing the abbreviated name.  I have a fix in my tree for
this.  I basically just hooked up our datasource to a new folder method called
GetAbbreviatedName and I hooked up code that already did this in
nsNewsFolder.cpp.

There's a pref "news.abbreviate_pretty_name" that tells how many words from the
right should be abbreviated.  Right now if you don't want anything abbreviated,
set this to some really high value.

Eventually we'll have a tool tip that shows the full name of the newsgroup.

To clarify,

netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news will now show up as n.p.m.mail-news in order
to save space.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Is this the bug?  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11044

Comment 2

[lchiang]

If so, can you mark the other bug as a duplicate of this one?

Comment 3

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

*** Bug 11044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

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

cool, Oleg's code is finally getting used.

Comment 5

[Karen Huang]

Passed by retest on Linux 11-04-08-M11,
Mac 11-04-08-M11 and WinNT 11-04-09-M11  All platforms passed!
Mark as Verified