06/11/2003 Jamie Pruden: >1. Delete button deletes mail. Wow, what a concept... I've been hitting >the delete button for the past two days and am amazed when the darn >message doesn't go away. It's going to take me some retraining to get >back on the command-d thing for Emailer again.
Emailer's behaviour is Good, instant deletion is Bad. That's why Apple invented the Finder's trash in the first place : this very concept was a major achievement of the mac, which we took for granted but wasn't (very poorly) copied until Win95. In fact Emailer goes way beyond the Finder's primitive trashcan and should have been an inspiration to Apple and others: - it may erase trashed items after some time by itself (brilliant, mine keeps trashed messages for a month so I get a chance to recover from human or scripts mistakes and yet don't have to manually empty the trash, which would delete old and new items altogether -- same reason for keeping messages on the servers for some time to get a chance of downloading them again if needed, like after hitting Cmd-D by mistake) - the delete key DOES delete mail: when you "delete" something from anywhere it goes in the trash, when you "delete" something from the trash it goes away, which should be THE way to do that in the Finder too, as it lets you suppress chosen items without worrying about the others (there's a reason for keeping items in the trash: the opportunity to change your mind; but if the only way to actually erase one item is to lose that opportunity for other unrelated items, then there's something rotten in the kingdom of Denmark) In fact I think the Cmd-D "Erase" shortcut is the worst thing in Emailer and should be ResEdited out of it right away: - no chance to recover from a mistake (Bad, Bad, and totally un-mac) - Cmd-D is the canonical shortcut for "Duplicate", which makes it the worst choice for "erase" (it would be the obvious shortcut for the "Resend a copy" scripts) ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
