37603 - Subscribed newsgroups not being updated in the correct order

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

After the subscribe dialog the subscribes newsgroups are updated to show how 
many new messages there are in each newsgroup.
The updating are not done from the top down but in the order you subscribes to 
the newsgroups.

Lets say the newsgroup have the following news groups:
a
b
c
d
Now you go into the subscribe dialog and first subscribe to c then a the d then 
b and the press ok.
Now see how Mozilla updates the numbers for messages in the newsgroups. Like 
this: c a d b
Instead Mozilla should update the newsgroups in the order they appear in the 
screen. Alfabeticly.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Changing subject to be correct...

Comment 2

[jay garcia]

What build and OS ?? Use the helper page to enter a bug:
 
  http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

here's the reason why this happens:

the list of newsgroups in the folder pane is sorted alphabetically, but that's 
probably not the order they are in your newsrc file.

the internal list of newsgroups (as children of the news server) should match 
the order in the newsrc file.

the real problem is that we are sorting the newsgroups in the folder pane.

to verify that I'm correct try this:

with a new profile, add news.mozilla.org

the subscribe to newsgroups one at a time, doing so in alphabetical order.

then, when you update the counts, it will go in order.

thanks for logging the bug.  marking m19

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this would be XP.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

we also have 18343 which is about not alphabetizing newsgroups.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

these are all subscribe bugs.   accepting.

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

We should update the newsgroups in the order that they are shown in the 
folderpane.

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This would get fixed (though not exactly as requested) if we displayed
newsgroups in the .rc file order rather than sorting them.

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is fixed, because now we show you the folders in the order they appear in
the newsrc file.  see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18343

Comment 10

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Verified FIXED.  We now display and update newsgroups based on the order in
which you subscribed them on : 

Mac OS 9. 1- 2001-08-24-08
Windows 2K - 2001-08-24-03
RedHat 7.1 - 2001-08-24-08

I subscribed to (in this order):

n.p.m.macosx
n.p.f.editor
n.private 

I restarted Moz on all platforms after this, opened the twisty and noticed that
they were correctly listed in this order and also updated counts in order.