GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 220999
New preference "return to folder" on delete
Last modified: 2018-07-26 17:18:56 UTC
Description of Problem: Not a problem. It's a new feature. Current Viewing: Pre-view pane off, viewing emails in a separately opened mail viewing window - opened by double-clicking on a message in the folder viewor pressing "Enter" when a message is selected in the folder view. When the delete (trash can) is clicked, the viewing window loads the next message. New action request: Have a checkbox (or a drop-down action list) in the mail reading settings that defaults to the current action as described above. This setting, would give a new choice to make the mail viewing window simply close when the currently viewed mail is deleted by clicking on the "trash can" or by selecting the delete action by hot-key or menu - in effect returning to the folder view. In Outlook, they have several more options, but this is the only one that I care about. Design alternatives: - Check box: limits the expansion of this feature to allow different actions, but is most likely the easiest to implement. - Drop down menu: Allows for further expansion of this feature more easily, but would probably look strange if it only has two choices.
what are the options outlook has? screenshot or diagram perhaps?
Created attachment 41464 [details] Outlook Email Options
I attached a screenshot of the section of the Outlook dialog that allows the choice of what to do with the external mail viewing window. The options in the drop-down box for what to do after moving or deleting a message are: open the previous item open the next item return to the Inbox The first (unchecked) box is also a nice related feature that allows you to reply to or forward a message, and have the external mail viewing window stay on the same message, or close itself (instead of moving to the next message).
Ooh, I like the drop-down menu option you suggest above. I would go so far as to lobby for its inclusion in the "Message Display" frame of the Mail Prefs page of the integrated settings dialog. /me gives her blessing, for whatever it is worth -Anna
this is really a shell feature, since the mailer has nio control over this. but yea, I guess something such as that could work. we could even just use the EvolutionFolderSelectorButton widget thingy instead of a dropdown menu.
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Is anyone working on this? I know I can't vote for it but I've previously reported this as a bug. I also asked about this on the Ubuntu forums and had several people express interest, too.
Moving this to Mailer. Perhaps something to be considered after kill-bonobo lands. +0.
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Unbelievable that a "papercut" feature request like this has not been taken care of in more than 14 (!!!) years. Personally, this missing feature has been the one pushing me to Thunderbird again and again over all the years. As the usability team seems to be on the list: you are aware that most of the users are either not able to open bugs regarding such missing features or simply don't have the time or necessity to do so, don't you? If it's possible to "sponsor" such features (as I neither have the knowledge nor time to contribute): what would it cost to implement this checkbox for closing a window after deletion or move of an email?
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Is there really no chance to get this option implemented (return to the email-list after deleting an email in a full viewing window). Currently, the separate email-viewing window stays open and the next email is displayed. To me this is the most disturbing annoyance of evolution at all (and looking at the history of the bug, its age and the number of duplicates it seems I'm not the only one). I assume for someone experienced with programming and evolution should be able to implement it in a very short time - just an email option to decide what to do after deleting an email in full-window view: either a) show the next email or b) return to the email-list. Whoever could implement this would make my day for sure! :-)
I also request this basic feature please. Apparently Evolution used to have this feature in preferences but it got stripped out. Please put it back: lots of people want this. The lack of this option makes Evolution very clunky for me. I want the software to fit my way of working - not to have to learn a new way of working.
You are right, the option is there, but it's not in the UI. There had been some effort to minimize the Preferences window several years ago and that's the outcome. The current way to influence the behaviour you can run from a terminal: $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail browser-close-on-delete-or-junk true which is bug #794832 (to be part of 3.30.0 stable release) and I'll close this as a duplicate of it (I know it might be better the other way, but the fix landed there, not here). With the close for reply/forward, there's: $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail browser-close-on-reply-policy 'ask' which is there for long (I cannot find the exact bug report, also because the key changed meanwhile). Finally, there's Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Delete Mail section->Go to the previous message after message deletion, which is bug #787612. You can run dconf-editor and navigate to /org/gnome/evolution/mail to see all the mail-related options. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 794832 ***