Re: [Evolution] delete mail should move to trash

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On 06 Jul 2001 11:53:36 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On 05 Jul 2001 23:03:10 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> > On 05 Jul 2001 12:25:54 -0400
> >  Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com> wrote:
> > > Expunge only expunges a single folder while Empty Trash emptie all of
> > > the trash folders (and since the trash folders are vfolders of all of
> > > your real folders, it expunges all of your folders).
> >
> > Hmm.  I think that the UI should probably be modified to make
> > these facts clear to the user.  So, "Expunge" should be "Expunge Folder"
> > and "Empty Trash" should be "Empty Trash Folders".
>
> I suppose...
>
> > I am away from my test machine for a few days, so I'll ask some
> > questions here:
> >
> > 1.  Doesn't "Expunge" also empty the current folder's deleted 
> > messages from the Trash folder?  Perhaps this should not happen,
> > since the UI doesn't reflect that.
>
> Yes, because a vFolder doesn't have it's own copy of the message, it
> peeks into the original folder for the actual message. So when you
> expunge Inbox (for example), all the deleted messages in Inbox will be
> removed thus the vTrash folder will no longer be able to see them.
> Does that make sense?
>
> > 2.  You mention trash vfolders.  I thought there was only one
> > Trash vfolder that was shared by all folders.  Is the "Trash"
> > folder really some sort of merged view of multiple trash vfolders?
>
> There is a vTrash folder for each store, ie: 1 for the Local store and 1
> for each IMAP store.
>
> > 3.  I would assume that no matter what folder I am in, if I delete
> > a message, that message shows up in the "Trash" vfolder.  Is this 
> > correct?

This all leads me to to believe that the menus should be contextualized.
So, instead of having:

Actions -> Expunge Folder (as I proposed previously)
and
Actions -> Empty Trash Folders

we'd have something like this:

Actions -> Expunge Current Folder
Actions -> Local Folders -> Expunge All & Empty Trash
Actions -> <IMAP account #1 name> -> Expunge All & Empty Trash
Actions -> <IMAP account #2 name> -> Expunge All & Empty Trash

What do you think?  Is this clearer?
I really don't think the current behavior is well matched
to the current UI implementation.

Thanks,
        Miles