[MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded

Sam Hathaway list.mailmate at munkynet.org
Thu Sep 3 15:54:26 EDT 2020


I think a user might find it surprising if messages that are NOT 
selected were deleted.
-sam

On 3 Sep 2020, at 15:52, Antonio Leding wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> So the delete-the-entire-thread when collapsed makes sense to me as 
> well and I’m not suggesting that should change.  But my expectation 
> was that when a message is deleted, all of its children would also be 
> deleted regardless of the thread being expanded or collapsed.  
> Basically that the current collapsed behavior would also occur when 
> expanded as well.
>
> Of course, all messages above the highlighted message would remain 
> unmodified…
>
>
>
>
> On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:46, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
>> On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote:
>>
>>> In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as highlighted 
>>> if the parent is highlighted.
>>
>> I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and I 
>> rely on it.
>> -sam
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