310769 - preference to specify how many parts of the newsgroup name shouldn't be abbreviated

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Bergolth]

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In the current implementation, the mail.server.xxx.abbreviate preference option
is a bool. If enables, the newsgroup name gets abbreviated so that only the last
component isn't abbreviated.

However this is problematic if you have subscribed multiple groups that have a
common, ending like *.announce or *.devel. In such cases, it would be useful to
have the last 2 components unabbreviated.

The implementation of such a feature, would be vey easy: Simply replacing the
hardcoded value of 1 in the call to AbbreviatePrettyName in
nsMsgNewsFolder::GetAbbreviatedName with a value gotten from an int preference
should be enough.

See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/news/src/nsNewsFolder.cpp#663


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Suite bug 61795 -> Suite bug 41613?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE.