Re: Undo (was: Re: [Evolution] Deleting a whole thread)

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 18:41 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > <rant>
> > Of course if there was an Undo action, it wouldn't matter. Undo (at
> > least for deletes and moves) is sorely needed in any case IMHO. This
> has
> > been requested, repeatedly (see
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207624 for an example),
> over
> > *4 years*, and no progress has been made on it. I consider this a
> > fundamental UI failing in Evo.
> > </rant>
>
> At least undoing a delete is easy. Disable View / Hide Deleted
> Messages
> and just undelete (Ctrl-U) the message.

No, it's not easy!

This is the answer I always get, and it's wrong. The problem arises when
you don't know what you deleted. You're scanning a long list of new
messages, probably switching back and forth between several folders of
interest, and deleting a bunch of messages as you go. Suddenly your
subconcious tells you the subject of a recently deleted message was
important and you need to read it. So you disable View/Hide Deleted
Messages and you're faced with a large number of subjects with lines
through them. What was the last one you deleted? No idea.

And by the way, it's Shift-Ctrl-D, not Ctrl-U.

And another thing: undeleting a message doesn't restore it's Read/Unread
status.

poc