38931 - [FEATURE]Tree view of news subscriptions

Status: NEW

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

Description

[[e-mail]]

Currently you can view newsgroups as dotted names or as abbreviated dotted names.

I would like the option of a tree view of newsgroups, e.g.
news
> alt
  > humor
    > best-of-usenet (2)
> rec
  > humor
    > funny (1)
      > reruns (1)
news.mozilla.org
> netscape
  > public
    > mozilla
        java (16)
        ui (8671)
        win32 (3)

After all, mail folders are organized in a tree...

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

reassigning to [e-mail] and cc'ing sspitzer.  If someone wanted a pref 
that did this we would need the news backend to have a folder structure as shown 
in the tree below.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

news backend to have folder structure? What I wanted was for the newsgroup tree
to show in folder view like the subscribe dialog does.

Comment 3

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

neil,  scott was just describing what we'd need to do in the back end to get
this to work.

interesting rfe, I wish I had the time to work on it.  I bet it would expose
certain assumtions I've made, since currently all newsgroups are always direct
children of the server.

note, something like a tree view for news would be needed if we ever support
news categories, but instead of using newsgroup names to determine parent->child
relationships, we'd use group->category.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

moving way out there...nobody is a busy person.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 107080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jonadab the Unsightly One (Nathan Eady)]

As discussed on n.p.m.wishlist, suggest collapsing items with
only one child.  So, for example:

alt.
  drinks.kool-aid
  lang.basic.compiler
  test.clienttest2
gnu.emacs.
  gnus
  help
netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist  
rec.
  arts.
    int-fiction
    puppetry
  games.diplomacy

I agree that this is not urgent.

Allowing the user to re-order the subscribed groups
arbitrarily (a la Gnus) would substantially complicate 
this RFE, and someone is bound to request that also
at some point.  

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 62197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Dave Booth]

*** Bug 169494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Karsten Düsterloh]

*** Bug 174908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***