David E. Ross wrote on 5/28/2017 3:55 PM:
On 5/28/2017 10:58 AM, rickman wrote:
David E. Ross wrote on 5/28/2017 1:26 PM:
On 5/28/2017 10:02 AM, rickman wrote:
I use eternal-september for most of my newsgroup access and don't have
problems with it other than the icons being far too small to see. I get
eyestrain trying to see the tiny green spot that indicates a group with new
posts. But at least they are there.
I also use news.mozilla.org to access this one group. I never see the group
icon change when there are new posts. The little green arrow never appears.
Any idea why?
For newsgroups, there is no group icon. If there is a new message, the
name of the newsgroup should appear bold. If there are any unread
messages, the count is shown.
Not sure what you mean there is no group icon. There is a pane listing all
the servers and groups subscribed to on that server there is an icon next to
each group. It changes for the eternal-september groups but not for the
Mozilla groups. I see this is called the "folder" pane.
I see a purple arrow for those newsgroup messages to which I replied. I
see a green arrow for those E-mail messages to which I replied and a
purpose arrow for those E-mail messages that I resent unaltered to
someone else; and I see both arrows for those E-mail messages for which
I did both.
We are both talking about SeaMonkey, right? I don't see anything purple.
But then I don't use email in SeaMonkey.
Actually, my reply was based on using Thunderbird. However, SeaMonkey
uses the same MailNews Core that Thunderbird uses.
I do see an icon for each newsgroup. It resembles a file folder
upside-down (fold at the top, open at the bottom) with a note attached
with a pushpin. I never see this icon change for new messages.
This part of the UI seems to have been changed between the T-bird and
SeaMonkey. The icon in SeaMonkey is a pair of what look like text balloons
from a cartoon, but one is upside down from the other. I suppose that
represents messages going in two directions. When a new message is posted
to the group a green arrow is added to the icon. I recall T-bird changed
the entire group name to green. That was pretty obvious. The text in both
panes (folder and thread) is smaller or at least more crowded than in
T-bird. As I've said, I never had a real problem reading these names in
T-bird. In SeaMonkey it's like reading the small print on an eye chart.
As I've said, I am subscribed to eternal-september for two dozen groups and
they all show a green arrow in the icon when a new message has been
received. In the folder for news.mozilla.org there is one group and the
icon never changes when new messages have been received.
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Rick C
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