1777841 - "Store Articles in" field of Feed Subscriptions dialog shows physical folder path on keypress, consider better feedback and have folder drop-down instead

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect, P5)

Description

[Yogesh]

Attachment: Thunderbird_feeds1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select News Feed parent directory "Blogs & News Feeds"
2. Click "Manage feed subscriptions" button in the main pane
3. Add a feed URL
4. Click on the "Store Articles in" field below

Actual results:

Nothing happens. Typing any keyboard key switches between the default parent namespace "Blogs & News Feeds" and the Feed directory on disk "/home/user/.thunderbird/xyzabc123.default-beta/Mail/Feeds"

Expected results:

A dropdown should have been shown with existing directories as options.

Comment 1

[Yogesh]

Attachment: Thunderbird_feeds2.png

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks, confirming exactly as described.

Selecting a subfolder from the top tree view succeeds and updates the "Store articles in" field.
But it's not that clicking on that field itself does nothing (RFE).

(In reply to YG from comment #0)

Typing any keyboard key switches between the default parent namespace "Blogs & News Feeds" and the Feed directory on disk "/home/user/.thunderbird/xyzabc123.default-beta/Mail/Feeds"

That's unexpected and undiscoverable enough to be a bug.
Odd, but won't hurt much iiuc. Feed reader is one of those rarely used corners...

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot 1: "Store articles in" field shows real path after keypress

sic

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It seems nothing new and per design: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/12d3830dea34b6289efb9dad17496dac8c093ab1/mailnews/extensions/newsblog/feed-subscriptions.js#1167-1173
Though I don't think that's very useful.