Alvin, Lee & Anders, On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:27, Alvin wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:18, BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:08, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Harrumph!
It gets worse. SHIFT-DEL, though it's shown in the Shortcuts dialog as being associated with the "Delete" action, does not in fact do anything. Furthermore, the Delete action does not appear in the context menu of the mailbox list pane nor of the message preview pane nor in any of the menu-bar menus.
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I think this must be your problem, because this function still works for my KMail. Having only move to trash in the selections is probably a better choice, especially for new users. It allows the user to have a second chance at removing the mail or viewing it again. For those of us that just want to get rid of them, then shift-del still works to completely remove the mail.
Upon restarting KMail this morning, SHIFT-DEL is again deleting message. I don't know what that's about.
Lee
Just another point, moving the email to the trash should be considered a good thing. When you close Kmail, it automagically purges the trash anyway.
First of all, that is email for babies. Second, automatic trash purging is an option, not a fixed behavior. I have been using SHIFT-DEL, mostly for spam, without incident for years. (I do leave the confirmation dialog enabled. Contrast this with Thunderbird, which simply has no such confirmation dialog and in which I have, once or twice, lost mail by accidentally hitting shift delete or hitting it when the wrong message was selected). On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
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I guess it's just a menu reorganisation. Context commands in preference to menu commands
Removing commands from menus that can be activated by the keyboard and
leaving them only in context menus is a loss of functionality, not a
mere reorganization of the menus, and is a bad thing. (And yes, I know
you can activate the context menu from the key between the right-side
Windows and CTRL keys, but this is hard for me to to hit reliably and
without looking at the keyboard, which is not true for
Alvin
Randall Schulz