[kmail2] [Bug 411486] New: [feature request]: select none

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Sun Sep 1 09:31:26 BST 2019


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411486

            Bug ID: 411486
           Summary: [feature request]: select none
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: All
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: folders
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: rjvbertin at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

I hope this is still the place to lodge feature requests?

I have had one for a long time: an option not to select anything upon entering
a new mail folder, or after certain operations like deleting the currently
selected message(s). The former was relatively straightforward to implement in
KMail 4.1x days, the latter I never figured out.

I could draft a list of "hard" reasons exactly why I miss this feature, but
underneath they all share the question "why would you *have* to select
anything" in the situations outlined above? An email reader isn't really
different from a file browser ("explorer"), and how many of those do you know
that will always select a file when you move into a new folder, or delete a
file? True, a file system doesn't have the added notion of "new, unread", but
then again a MUA isn't used exclusively to read (and possibly delete/archive)
new mail. ALL new mail.

2 reasons why a forced selection can be annoying:
- you keep having to switch those messages back to "unread" that you want to
keep in that state (and I'm not even talking about messages that have a confirm
read request set).
- you keep having to scroll back the folder message list because that
obligatory selection happens to fall somewhere that shouldn't be visible.

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