It might be interesting to compare how we are handling this situation and what happens in Gmail.
In Gmail, where it is in Google's interest to preserve content, the recommend action to get an item out of your face (remove it from the In Box) is to "Archive" the item. If no label (collection) has been assigned to the item, it just disappears until it shows up in a search result. If the item is in the In Box and also in other collections (based on assigned labels) then "Archiving" the item just removes it from the In Box view. In addition to the Archive action, there is also a Delete action that adds a Trash label to the item. All collection views filter out items that also have a Trash label - except for the Trash collection where you can see all those deleted items and the collections (labels) they were assigned. You can wait for some period of time and Trash items automatically get removed from the system, manually force removal, or un-Trash an item and it reappears back in the previous collections. I find the Archive approach useful and have a huge amount of my email not labeled (in a collection) but also not in my In Box. I use this archived material as Google intends, by locating it through either ad hoc searches or saved searches that I create (like all unread email in the last 2 days). Having two clearly identified processes, Archive and Delete/Trash is helpful. Pieter On 7/21/06, Jeffrey Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Sheila, > So what would happen if the item is the last item (it might be in All or > a user-defined collection). Would the Del key just do nothing? Nope, I'm assuming we'll continue doing what we do now, remove is smart enough to know that removing from the last collection means moving to the trash. So for items in just one collection, remove and delete mean the same thing. Sincerely, Jeffrey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
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