251706 - Expose pref to control newsgroup names abbreviation

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[john.brennand]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.8
Build Identifier: 

When I download a list of newgroups they are presented in the abbreviated format.  There doesnt seem 
to be a way of expanding them in OSX to be able to see the full newsgroup name.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select and download a list of newsgroups
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

> When I download a list of newgroups they are presented in the abbreviated
> format.

Where? In the subscribe dialog or in the folder pane after subscribing?

If the later, you're searching for
user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate",false);

Comment 2

[Adam Hunt]

Christian,

I do believe that he is talking about the list in the folder pane.  I have the
same issue.  Off the top of your head can you tell me what "g.c.w.z.z.user" is?
 It's short for "gmane.comp.web.zope.zope3.user" but when I look at my list of
fifty of so newsgroups all with abbreviations like "g.c.w.z.z.user" it can be
rather difficult to determine.

What is this user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate",false) that you speak
of?  Is that option exposed via the UI anywhere?

--adam

Comment 3

[Doug Wright]

re comment 2, see

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Newsgroups_Full_Name

Comment 4

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

I am still waiting for UI configuration option for this one. I think 
implementing this one issue in UI should have a higher priority as it is a 
"common grief" locally here.

Comment 5

[Ray Booysen]

*** Bug 333757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Daniel Serodio]

(In reply to comment #3)
> re comment 2, see
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Newsgroups_Full_Name

This link is broken, is there a new location for this?

Comment 7

[metamorphic]

I had the same problem and solved it with the option 
user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate", false); 
in the user.js file. 
However, such an option or showing readable names by default would be a big help.

Comment 8

[Alix]

no problems

Comment 9

[DANIILPrelsky]

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Comment 10

[gurozapovamarina]

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Comment 11

[Настя]

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Comment 12

[paul.b2289]

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Comment 13

[мэргэн]

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