Yes, please keep the straight Delete option. If someone needs a safety net, it's there [in fact, more than one safety net is there], but forcing me to use two keys when one will do is unnecessary, and anti-user.
Greg -------------- On 11/15/01 12:34 PM, Paul Berkowitz was willing to say outloud: > On 11/15/01 12:17 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On or near 11/15/01 11:32 AM, Rick Mann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>> This might be in Mac OS X, but I only need to press the delete key to delete >>> a message, even though the menu key-equivalent shown in the menu is >>> Command-Delete. >>> >>> I really prefer the safety net of having to hold Command to delete a >>> message, especially since the undo doesn't work well and reset as soon as >>> you switch folders. >>> >> This can be particularly irksome when you are reading an incoming message in >> its own window, forget to start a reply, and then begin to try to "edit" the >> incoming message by deleting some of its text...you select text, press the >> Delete key...and the <entire message> disappears! Of course, it only went to >> the Deleted Items folder, but newbies won't know that. And even when you do >> it is a PITN to have to switch folders, move the message back where it >> belongs, and re-open it. If the Command key were required, then you'd just >> get a "beep" because editing the message isn't allowed (unless you have >> clicked the "Edit" button, in which case the delete key DOES delete just the >> selected text). >> >> This needs to be on the "please fix" list for the next update. > > If I recall correctly, this is how it was in OE 4.5, and was changed to the > present behavior by popular request (along with cmd-D becoming "Duplicate" > rather than yet another "Delete") - or just perhaps only cmd-D was Delete, I > forget now. Anyway, lots of people said they didn't see why they needed the > command key to delete... A safety net does exist, if you don't get rid of > it: the window that comes up and says "Are you sure you want to delete?". > You can restore that in General Preferences --> Notification --> Reset > Confirmation Dialogs. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
