On Thu, 18 May 2006 17:18:44 -0300, Martin Marques martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar wrote:
I personally don't see other web clients (don't come with the web desktop please) doing this (gmail, yahoo!, hotmail, IMP, squirrelmail, etc.). Yes I know Thunderbird, Outlook, kmail, and pine do it, but in the first tree cases it's because the actually do something with the mail, besides selecting it (they show the contents of it on another frame), while the fourth (pine) has to do it because it's the only way of showing from where you are moving (pine doesn't use mouse as it works on a terminal so you move the selection with keyboard arrows). At the end, why are you selecting another message? Just to be able to delete one after the other faster? I just don't get why this is so necesary.
Hi!
I've been purposefully trying not to weigh in on this one, but I felt I needed to add a clarification here.
Yahoo webmail's new system, which is currently Mail beta does exactly this behaviour. When a selected message is deleted using the delete key, the selection moves to the next message according to the sort order.
Further, Microsoft's Windows Live Mail beta also added this functionality in exactly the same way.
For GMail, the entire intent was never to delete mail. In fact, it never had a direct Delete button until a month or two ago. You had to go, 'move this message to the trash' folder.
I personally have a Hotmail account that gets tons of mailing lists, and this functionality hugely reduced the time it takes to sort mail. However, its the combination of a visible preview of the message AND the delete selection sliding. Click delete, look at the next message, click delete... Its of less value for Roundcube now without preview, but that will come.
I'm very confident this is the right approach -- we're in great company with desktop apps AND next generation web apps like Yahoo and Windows Live Mail. But, that's also the beauty of an open source app. Hack your local copy to meet your needs if you can't agree. We're all done it many times.
Andrew