294387 - RFE: sort newsgroups into subfolders

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Nino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko)
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in addition to sorting newsgroups alphabetically I'd like to sort them into 
separate subfolders 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Nino]

q&d workaround see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_newsgroups

Comment 4

[Roderik Emmerink]

It should be easy to implement, to just drag and drop a newsgroup up and down, like you can do with the email folders and subfolders of your inbox. I really like to have this implemented since it is hard to find my favourite groups in all my subscriptions. They are not grouped based on their topic but grouped in the order I added them. I hope someone will implement this, it must be easy since the only thing involved is changing the order in the text file where they are saved (as noted in the work-around).

Comment 5

[Andreas Kotes]

Being able to sort alphabetically would be real minimum, I'd say.

Comment 6

[Marcus Lindblom]

Yup. I vote for this too,

Comment 9

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> q&d workaround see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_newsgroups

This bug is not (only) about sorting newsgroups, but also about putting them in a hierarchical folder structure.

Comment 10

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The use case for this seems not important enough to implement.

Comment 11

[Tristan Miller]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #10)

The use case for this seems not important enough to implement.

Are you speaking only about the ability to sort newsgroups alphabetically, or also about the ability to group them into subfolders? I ask because there was an older bug concerned only with sorting (Bug 251707) but it got duped to this one. IMHO there is indeed a use case for sorting groups—finding a group in a list of a dozen or more becomes onerous when they're not sorted. Perhaps the previous bug could be reopened?