Re: [Evolution] Deleting a whole thread

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > What about Edit / Select Thread (Ctrl-H) and then delete?
> >
> > Not just one accelerator, but at least down to two, rather than marking
> > all messages of a thread manually. FWIW, Select Thread selects the
> > sub-thread with the current mail as parent, so it's easily possible to
> > delete a boring part of ongoing discussion, but still keep the
> > interesting parts. ;)
>
> IMHO this is "bug redefined as feature". When I delete a thread I
> invariably want to delete all of it, so I have to laboriously look for
> the head in order to select the whole thing.

I don't know how it was intended to be in the first place, and actually
I used to agree with you. Anyway, now I really use this *feature* -- in
fact, I used it just an hour ago on d-d-l. :-)


> Two possible alternatives would be:
>
> 1) An accelerator for "go to the head of the current thread".
> 2) Shift-Ctrl-H for "select the entire thread".

I *really* do love this one. Filed, feel free to add comments.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322073

...guenther


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