On 9 Jan 2014, at 15:54, David N. Blank-Edelman wrote:
I have a quick UX question/observation. I can see arguments on both
sides for this, so I'm curious if this is an intentional choice. I
often read my mail from the built-in "Unread" smart folder. As I read
mail, I delete it as I go. Sometimes if I'm not thinking, I'll press
delete and then a split second later realize "oh, I do want that
message". I then reach for the undo keystroke (command-Z).
The Undo command at this point will indeed undo the deletion but I
can't tell because it never returns the message back to the Unread
folder (i.e. if I want to see the message again I have to switch back
to, say, the Inbox folder). There's no UI indication that the Undo
Delete Message command has succeeded and somewhat worse, I don't get
the message back in front of me immediately which is presumably what I
want.
I realize that there are two things happening here. First, I've landed
on a message and that has changed the "Seen" status of the message and
second, I've deleted the message (presumably that's an IMAP \Deleted
flag being applied to the message and then hidden from view). The Undo
is perhaps legitimately just undoing the second operation and so the
message doesn't deserve to come back to Unread. Still, the heart wants
what the heart wants and in this case I'd love to see the message back
under my cursor after an Undo. I realize this is such a little thing
in such an awesome program but I've now noticed it a number of times
in my first couple of weeks of using MailMate in earnest so I'd love
to ask about it.
Benny, would you mind commenting on this?
It's an interesting problem and you described it very well. Originally,
a message would disappear from the “Unread” mailbox as soon as it
was marked as read. This is computer-logic, but naturally it didn't work
well in practice. Instead MailMate now jumps through hoops to avoid
behaving like that.
I think the ideal behavior is that the message returns to the folder in
its read state. I'll think about how it can be implemented.
--
Benny
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