270885 - Newsgroups/Folders are (abbreviated or truncated) with mail.server.default.abbreviate = false pref

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jeeva]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The longer news group names (news groups that don't fit with in the side bar)
are truncated or abbreviated no matter what the user preference is.

mail.server.default.abbreviate option/preference only affects the scheme of
abbrevation. 

For example 
if mail.server.default.abbreviate is not at all set
- netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news  is abbreviated as
  n.p.m....l-news
if mail.server.default.abbreviate is to false set to false
- netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news  is abbreviated as
  nestsca...-news 
In order to demostrate the issue, I reduced the size my side bar little bit.

However on the other news servers, the group hierarch and length are too long.
Thus the side bar shows only junks and hence one has to select the group to see
what the groups is.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
If the length of the folder or newgroup name is too long and abbreviation is set
to false. The GUI should list the names as is and provide a scroll bar to see
the complete name.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[John H Meyers]

A helpful "balloon" already appears (in TB13)
whenever mail.server.default.abbreviate
is set to its default value "true,"
but unfortunately the "balloon" is currently suppressed
when that value is set to "false," even though in the "false" case,
displayed newsgroup names are even more indistinguishable
when the column is narrow (you would have to widen the column a lot
to see lengthy complete names).

Hence I suggest letting the "balloon" always appear,
not solely when the names are "abbreviated."