GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 85725
Unable to attach filter to renamed newsgroup
Last modified: 2006-06-18 05:15:46 UTC
If I have changed the name of a newsgroup via its Properties, I cannot assign a filter to it by name. Procedure: Tools -> Rules; Pick a rule and hit Edit; check "Rule applies to specific newsgroups" and select some. [Wish: It would be nice if double-clicking a newsgroup on the left would cause it to pop over to the right!] Hit OK. Edit the same Rule again and note that the newsgroup(s) you had selected are now gone! If I do this with groups I have *not* renamed, the setting sticks.
Hmmm, what's the purpose of renaming a group ? (from a code point of view, I don't even know whether it's a good idea to allow this. Charles ?)
IIRC renaming groups was so that they could be made shorter in the grouplist, which is something that the "abbreviate group name" does better with less ways to break things. I wouldn't mind if the "rename group" feature disappeared.
I agree, but in this particular case, it's easier to fix the bug than to strip all the 'readable_name' stuff. :) Fixed for 0.12.1 and merged to HEAD.
Thank you, Charles. :) I liked the abbreviated group names, but the way in which this function abbreviates names is not configurable. Names are always shortened to one letter, which I found to cause some duplicate, or near-duplicate, names in a few cases. Manually renaming them according to my own scheme removes the confusion. (It's a bonus I've seen in no other newsreader, BTW, but I've only used four or five so maybe I missed it.)