On Wed, 24 May 2006, Charles McNulty wrote:
Rather than having delete toggle between delete and undelete, there should be a delete command and an undelete command which only does what it says it's going to do to everything in the selection list (not toggle, or worse toggle a subset).
The undelete command needs to be available, typically its in the edit menu or right click popup menu.
I think there is a good reason Outlook never undeletes with the delete command.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. I think that undeletion with the delete key is non-intuitive and should be phased out the moment we have a right-click or edit menu. You can even see the havoc it's causing in Thunderbird right now by searching bugzilla for undelete.
The problem is that we had no mechanism at all for undeleting messages en mass. This was a pretty critical flaw that I feel overrides our shared desire for more sane deletion/undeletion handling. In short, I just didn't think that we could wait for edit/right click menus for this feature.
Why not just add an undelete botton, and a "select deleted" at the bottom just aside of the "none" (and maybe a "select undeleted" too).
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