Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Since going over to kde-4.3, >> the newsgroup names have all become abbreviated >> in a more or less unintelligible way, >> eg the Gmane newsgroups are >> g.c... >> g.c... >> g.l.... >> etc >> >> Widening the Names column, even to the whole screen width, >> does not help. > > I don't use Knode, but Evolution has an option to use this form of > naming for newsgroups. Perhaps Knode also has it. Thanks for your response, but I don't see anything in KNode=>Settings=>Configure KNode that seems to have any bearing on this. And I don't like to change ~/.kde/share/configs/knoderc without having the slightest idea what the various settings mean. Actually, I don't think anyone could deliberately set abbreviation in this form, eg sci.<everything> has become s.... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland