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Bug 209605 - Let "Delete" remove selected contact from the mailer contacts selector
Let "Delete" remove selected contact from the mailer contacts selector
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
2.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Harry Lu
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 271192 272277
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-11 11:17 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
patch 1.0 (3.65 KB, patch)
2005-02-21 08:29 UTC, Harry Lu
none Details | Review

Description Christian Rose 2001-09-11 11:17:24 UTC
Tested with evolution-0.13.99-snap.ximian.200109080708.

If I bring up the composer window and press "To:" I get up a contacts
selector where I can select contacts from the address book. 

I can add contacts from the left pane to the "To:" field by pressing "To:
->". However, it seems impossible to remove the contact from the "To:"
field if I want to change it without pressing cancel and exiting the dialog.

I'm suggesting that the "Delete" key gets bound so that if i select a
contact from the right and press Delete, it gets moved back to the left
pane again.
Possibly, buttons that do the same could also be added.
Comment 1 Eric Lambart 2001-09-13 06:26:33 UTC
you can currently delete the contact from the right-hand list by
either 
 a) double-clicking the right-side contact
 b) right-clicking and selecting "Remove"

Personally I agree VERY MUCH with the suggestion, but there are 
alternate methods so what do you say we target this for the 
future?

I think that in addition to the "Delete" key, there should be a 
"<--" button directly below each of the "To: ->" (etc.) buttons,
for those people who have no intution to discover a feature that
isn't in a menu or on a button.
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2001-09-13 08:48:55 UTC
Sure, I agree with all of this.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2004-04-13 10:36:27 UTC
in evo1.4.4-54 both possibilities described by eric are still there.
perhaps another button should be implemented, because i seriously
wonder if this is HIG-compliant at the moment...
Comment 4 André Klapper 2004-06-01 16:37:19 UTC
the same as 1.4.4-54 with
evolution1.5-1.5.7.0.200405162027-0.snap.ximian.8.1, adding keywords.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2005-02-04 19:06:52 UTC
updating:

- regression: there is no right-click menu in evolution-2.1.4.0.
200502011251-0.snap.ximian.10.1.
- delete key still not working
- double-clicking and also pushing enter works to remove the 
recipient, but i would NEVER have thought of that, if i had not read 
it in eric's comment. a normal user obviously expects the delete key 
for this functionality...
Comment 6 Harry Lu 2005-02-21 08:29:13 UTC
Created attachment 44814 [details] [review]
patch 1.0
Comment 7 Harry Lu 2005-02-23 10:27:18 UTC
patch committed.