302603 - Add checkbox (and edit field) to create new folder to feed properties when subscribing.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Pontus Freyhult]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050728 Thunderbird/1.0+

Currently, there's a certain amount of DWIM when subscribing to feeds that may
be confusing for users:

If the account root is selected, a new folder will be created with the name of
the feed. This folder is then used to store the feed.

If any folder other than the account root is selected, the feed is stored
directly in that folder.

I think this can be confusing and should be replaced. What I propose instead is
to add a checkbox and an edit field to the properties box when adding feeds, in
addition to the current folder selector

The checkbox should be used to choose whatever to create a new folder to store
the feeds in and the edit field should be the name of the new folder, if
creation is desired.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Duncan]

See also: Bug 325107 – subscribing to rss feeds should create a new folder by default
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325107

Comment 4

[alta88]

The old extra popup dialog for adding feeds no longer exists, so this in invalid.