[Kde-pim] "move all messages to the trash" in context-menu

Thomas McGuire mcguire at kde.org
Tue Dec 9 20:54:49 GMT 2008


Hi,

On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:26:17 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> In the context-menu of a folder one can find "move all messages to the
> trash". Assuming that only functionality that is used frequently should be
> part of a context-menu in order not to clutter it, I do not see why the
> above became part of it.
>
> It might be a personal (non-)use case, but I never deleted all mails in a
> folder and if so, this could easily be done by CTR+A and DEL or maybe even
> via the normal "folder" menu.
>
> Further the item is one beneath  "mark all messages as read", which I (and
> maybe others) use more frequently. So if I miss the "mark all messages as
> read" by a few pixels I trigger "move to trash" which does sound like
> something to avoid.
>
> Before I file a useless bug-report and everybody else using "move all
> messages to trash" on a daily basis, I'd like to make sure that my train of
> thought makes some sense.

I think it makes sense to move the "move all mails to the trash" away from 
"mark all mails as read", like it was before the SoC branch merge. Aaron also 
pointed out some other changes which are not good usability-wise, so they need 
to be changed back eventually (volunteers welcome).

Regards,
Thomas
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