300061 - Please add a column in RSS view which shows feed name

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Parsons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

A suggestion:

I have lots of feeds going to the same RSS folders. A column showing the name of
the RSS feed would be helpful to organise this folder more effectively.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to many feeds and set them to fill one folder
2. Get new feed messages
3. Click on the feed folder

Actual Results:  
The message appear jumbled and it's unclear which belongs to which feed

Expected Results:  
Being able to group by or sort by the feed title would be ideal.

Comment 1

[Chris Parsons]

perhaps related or blocked by bug 274139?

Comment 2

[alta88]

Since a feed message has no knowledge of the feed url it came from, distinguishing multiple feeds in the same folder with the feeds name is impossible without a major database redesign. It's complicated by the fact that urls can change and feeds can be moved to any folder, so a permanent id would have to be associated with a particular message. The cost of doing this outweighs its value, as workarounds exist.

A feed url can be subscribed one per folder, then a saved search of all desired folders can be created, if it's important to view multiple feed source messages in one folder. In this case, the Location column gives the user determined name of the folder, and this can be sorted and Grouped By.