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
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:
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:
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
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
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
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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
