333757 - Unable to differentiate between newsgroups (truncated names)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251706

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Daniel Serodio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Thunderbird truncates the names of the newsgroups in the "Folders" pane, except for the last component. eg: "gmane.comp.jakarta.log4j.user" is truncated to "g.c.j.l.user" and "gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user" is truncated to "g.c.j.t.user".
The problem is most newsgroups I subscribe to end in ".devel" or ".user", so I have to interpret the "g.c.j.l" part in order to differentiate between them.

There should be an option to configure the way names are truncated, or at least a tooltip when I mouseover the folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to the "gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user" newsgroup (at news.gmane.org)
2. Open Folders pane
3. Mouseover the "g.c.j.t.user" folder


Actual Results:  
Folders pane shows "g.c.j.t.user".
There is no tooltip.

Expected Results:  
Folders pane should show "gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user", or "g.c.j.tomcat.user", or at least show a tooltip with the full name of the newsgroup.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There should be an option to configure the way names are truncated, 

Duplicate of bug 310769 or bug 251706?

> or at least a tooltip when I mouseover the folder.

Duplicate of bug 271841.

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

Marking as a duplicate of 251706 which asks to expose a pref to control the abbreviation.

The reporter reported on two issues but marking it as a duplicate which is the same as the summary of this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251706 ***