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protz / Manually-Sort-Folders

An extension for Thunderbird 3.0+ that allows you to sort folders in the folder pane.
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Newsgroups shouldn't be sorted by their abbreviated name #9

Open skoehler opened 13 years ago

skoehler commented 13 years ago

Sorting is done using the abbreviated newsgroup name. That leads to very strange sorting. The following is a results of sorting by abbreviated names: gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel gmane.comp.hardware.avr.gcc gmane.comp.handhelds.android.platform

However, sorting by full name would yield: gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel gmane.comp.handhelds.android.platform gmane.comp.hardware.avr.gcc

I can disable the abbreviation of names in Thunderbird. But then the names are large, Thunderbird becomes unusable.

protz commented 13 years ago

Ok, I'll try to look into it when I have some time. I guess I'm just using the display name instead of the real name, so I don't know if it's possible to easily recover the full name of the newsgroups. I suggest you manually sort your newsgroups in the meanwhile...

skoehler commented 13 years ago

Thank you very much.

skoehler commented 13 years ago

Still not fixed in 1.0. Also your comment "As I have no plans to move this addon forward, I figured out this would be a good time to name it 1.0" makes me wonder, whether you're still planning to fix this.

protz commented 13 years ago

Is the abbreviation an option in Thunderbird? If yes, where can I find it? Thanks for reminding me, I had indeed forgotten this issue. However, being aggressive won't help! :-)

skoehler commented 13 years ago

Am 27.06.2011 08:15, schrieb protz:

Is the abbreviation an option in Thunderbird? If yes, where can I find it? Thanks for reminding me, I had indeed forgotten this issue. However, being aggressive won't help! :-)

The option is mail.server.default.abbreviate It's true by default.

I'm talking about newsgroup accounts. As long as I know Thunderbird, it has always shown short newsgroup names. For example "g.c.a.devel" instead of "gmane.comp.apache.devel". (The latter is a newsgroup on news.gmane.org with which you can access your favorite mailing lists)

Regards, Sven