Re: [Evolution] Auto Select First Message in List

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:44 -0600, larry wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 11:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-07-05 at 06:47 -0400, Geek wrote:
> > > When selecting a folder or starting evolution, the first message
> > > in
> > > the list is highlighted but not selected. If you try to delete,
> > > nothing happens. You must first select (click or tap) on the
> > > message to delete it. If autoselected, you should be able to
> > > delete
> > > the first message without selecting it first.
> > I agree that highlighting without selecting is confusing. I often
> > hit
> > an arrow key to move to the next message and instead find myself
> > moving to the next folder. I find this very counter-intuitive.
>
> On the other hand, highlighting the title of the email that was
> selected the last time you were in a folder is, IMO, a good thing.

Certainly, but I would prefer it to be selected as well as highlighted,
especially as it was selected when you last visited that folder. I
don't really see why it doesn't work like this.

> If the colour of the highlight was different than the 'selected'
> highlight, you would know that you were looking at that one
> previously, but that it is not selected now.

Again, I don´t understand the use case for this, but maybe my workflow
is different from other people's.

poc