271743 - Newsgroups Subscribe Dialog Layout

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Olaf van der Spek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This dialog contains a list control with two columns, group name and subscribe.
Could you change the order to subscribe, group name?
This makes it much easier to click on the right subscribe row when you use wide
windows.
And could you add a maximize button?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Newsgroups
2. Subscribe
3.

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Olaf van der Spek]

This bug is still relevant.

Comment 3

[steg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This bug is still relevant.

Agreed. It also concerns SeaMonkey, regardless of the Operating System (Some corrections to Product, Hardware and OS fields?). Seriously, a little maximize button would be useful.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

UI improvement? -> Bryan

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Now this is a dialog seriously in need of UI lovin':)

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I have some ideas on the subscribe dialog here, part of which is motivated at making it more accessible to extension types, other parts by other news subscription bugs, and a final part by the desire to make RSS use the same dialog as NNTP/IMAP. To be brief (as I am not a UI expert), this is what I consider the most important points of a new subscribe dialog:

* Distinguish between real name and pretty name (e.g. "mozilla.test" versus "Mozilla Test Newsgroup") (could also be used to handle the RSS feed -> folder mapping)
* Distinguish between three types of subscribe:
** The server returns a complete list (IMAP, NNTP in general)
** The server returns a list, but there may be private groups not advertised (some NNTP servers apparently, helpful for extensions like listarchive)
** No list to go by, so it's a free-for-all (RSS)
* Searchable
* Async

Comment 7

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Those sound like a pretty good start.  I'd love to see you push the newsgroup subscribe dialog into the newsgroup account html page instead of as it's own dialog.  It could use a bit more visibility to people and would give us a great place to land users who just created the news account.

Comment 8

[:aceman]

Comment 6 seems to not even include comment 0 so I'm not sure it belongs here.
Anyway, comment 0 would be doable easily, while comment 6 is quite unreal in the near future.

Comment 9

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

The bug title is not very clear. But yes, this bug should be used to implement comment 0. Comment 6 would be for a new, enhancement bug.

Comment 10

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Sorry, what's the question? - comment #8 has a few statements. I think subscribe bugs are not high priority.