* Duncan: > Benjamin Esham wrote: > > > Would it be possible to implement an "alias" feature, so that each group > > has an alternate name that is shown when "abbreviate group names" is > > turned on? > > Alias might work, but a different solution has been discussed. I believe > Charles proposed it so he obviously agrees, but it remains to be > implemented. The solution? When abbreviated names is turned on, expand > the last TWO sections, not just the last section.
That's a great idea! I hadn't thought of that. I think it would solve my problems quite nicely. > However, another often requested feature, custom categories [...] If a > user arranged categories right, it'd also solve the aliasing issue, altho > the two-field abbreviated groupname expansion seems to me to be a more > "natural" solution. I'm not sure how categories would solve this problem. I could create a "pan" category, but it would have only one group in it; likewise with my Inkscape and GnuPG groups. At best, I would have a bunch of categories with only one group each. If the categories were any more general, they would present the same ambiguity as before: having the groups x.y.z.users and a.b.c.users in the category "vector graphics" doesn't make it any easier for me to see what the groups are. (Not "at a glance", anyway.) Cheers, -- Benjamin D. Esham [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail "I haven't been on Usenet for very long, but it seems to be a black hole with regards to the time it requires to keep up with it." — an anonymous Usenet user, from a 1983 survey _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
