278714 - horizontal scroll bar in news group name window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241159

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[jhyder]

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

Thunderbird news reader would become more usable and more user friendly if a
horizontal scroll bar were incorporated in the news group listing window. Much
the same as is currently found in OE news reader, this would allow the user to
horizontally scroll to read long group names. This would also do away with the
default abbreviation of group names feature which results in cryptic and hard to
read group names. Turning the default abbreviation off does not achieve optimal
results because long names still abbreviate until window is resized to contain
the long names. 
The placement of a horizontal scroll bar will allow the user to quickly read
entire group names without having to resize the window. This would be a welcomed
enhancement and will make Thunderbird more user friendly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 271841

> Turning the default abbreviation off does not achieve optimal
> results because long names still abbreviate until window is resized to contain
> the long names. 

That's bug 270885.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241159 ***