272040 - Manage Subscriptions window is clumsy for managing a large number of feeds

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Gavin Treadgold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When you have more than a certain number of feeds - say 20-30, the Manage
Subscriptions window becomes a very clumsy mechanism for managing them. It
should support a foldering mechanism for grouping like feeds, and feeds should
be listed alphabetically rather then by order of subscription. The filing
structure should then be duplicated in the News&Blogs pane.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on News&Blogs
2. Click Manage Subscriptions

Actual Results:  
You are presented with a (seemingly) un-ordered list of all your newsfeeds.

Expected Results:  
You should have the ability to create folders and group newsfeeds in folders.
The structure should mirror how they are displayed in News&Blogs. And if you
click on a folder in News&Blogs, it should present a summary of all feeds
contained within that folder.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271972 (related bug)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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