Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:54, Sam Hathaway wrote: I think a user might find it surprising if messages that are NOT selected were deleted. Indeed, there was a bug a few versions back that failed to delete (or in my case, move upon dragging) the children with the parent, which I found very surprising, and the bug has been fixed in later versions. pr -- Pete Resnick https://www.episteme.net/ All connections to the world are tenuous at best ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
After a bit more thought, I agree that the current behavior is probably the best of all worlds. When expanded, only messages that are highlighted are deleted — And when collapsed, the entire thread is deleted. Thanks for discussing through this… On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:54, Sam Hathaway wrote: I think a user might find it surprising if messages that are NOT selected were deleted. -sam On 3 Sep 2020, at 15:52, Antonio Leding wrote: Hi Sam, So the delete-the-entire-thread when collapsed makes sense to me as well and I’m not suggesting that should change. But my expectation was that when a message is deleted, all of its children would also be deleted regardless of the thread being expanded or collapsed. Basically that the current collapsed behavior would also occur when expanded as well. Of course, all messages above the highlighted message would remain unmodified… On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:46, Sam Hathaway wrote: On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote: In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted if the parent is highlighted. I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I rely on it. -sam ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
On 3 Sep 2020, at 21:46, Sam Hathaway wrote: I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I rely on it. I certainly know this behaviour from other mail clients and can see both sides to it, in which case erring on the side of caution would seem to be the way to go: don't delete mails that aren't actively selected. OTOH, as recently came up in a discussion: combining smart folders with rules in MailMate might much of this kind task obsolete: create a smart folder for the relevant e-mails and add a delete rule. Job done. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Kronenstr. 27a Düsseldorf D- 40217 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226 ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
I think a user might find it surprising if messages that are NOT selected were deleted. -sam On 3 Sep 2020, at 15:52, Antonio Leding wrote: Hi Sam, So the delete-the-entire-thread when collapsed makes sense to me as well and I’m not suggesting that should change. But my expectation was that when a message is deleted, all of its children would also be deleted regardless of the thread being expanded or collapsed. Basically that the current collapsed behavior would also occur when expanded as well. Of course, all messages above the highlighted message would remain unmodified… On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:46, Sam Hathaway wrote: On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote: In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted if the parent is highlighted. I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I rely on it. -sam ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
Hi Sam, So the delete-the-entire-thread when collapsed makes sense to me as well and I’m not suggesting that should change. But my expectation was that when a message is deleted, all of its children would also be deleted regardless of the thread being expanded or collapsed. Basically that the current collapsed behavior would also occur when expanded as well. Of course, all messages above the highlighted message would remain unmodified… On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:46, Sam Hathaway wrote: On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote: In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted if the parent is highlighted. I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I rely on it. -sam ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote: In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted if the parent is highlighted. I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I rely on it. -sam ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
[MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded
Hello all, I have found that the delete behavior for parent & child messages is different depending on whether or not the message chain is expanded or collapsed. When expanded, only messages that are highlighted are deleted but the children remain as is. If collapsed, then all of the messages that are highlighted are deleted but their children are as well. In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted if the parent is highlighted. My question to the community is this: Is this by design or a bug? Thanks in advance. ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
