On Wed, 24 May 2006, Charles McNulty wrote:
Rather than having delete toggle between delete and undelete, there
should be a delete command and an undelete command which only does what
it says it's going to do to everything in the selection list (not
toggle, or worse toggle a subset).
The undelete command needs to be available, typically its in the edit
menu or right click popup menu.
I think there is a good reason Outlook never undeletes with the delete
command.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. I think that undeletion with the delete
key is non-intuitive and should be phased out the moment we have a
right-click or edit menu. You can even see the havoc it's causing in
Thunderbird right now by searching bugzilla for undelete.
The problem is that we had no mechanism at all for undeleting messages en
mass. This was a pretty critical flaw that I feel overrides our shared
desire for more sane deletion/undeletion handling. In short, I just didn't
think that we could wait for edit/right click menus for this feature.
Why not just add an undelete botton, and a "select deleted" at the bottom
just aside of the "none" (and maybe a "select undeleted" too).
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