Re: [Evolution] delete mail should move to trash

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 09 Jul 2001 00:48:55 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> 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.

yeah but your view of the world is so skewed as to be meaningless.