[horde] CheckBox Issue... I call it a bug, you?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:

> On 27 Mar 2017 17:04, "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Zitat von Vilius Sumskas/LNK <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>>
>>
>>>> > Hi Dave,
>>>> >
>>>> > Zitat von David Cunningham <dcunningham at additionnetworks.net>:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi All,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> When using the current version of Horde I click on the subject line
>>>> >> of an email to preview it in the preview window.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you then click the check box of a different email with the
>>>> >> intention of deleting it you leave two checked emails.  So, when
>>>> >> you hit delete, both are deleted.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On any other system (Google, Yahoo, Aol) when you preview an email
>>>> >> it does not check it.  It is only checked when you click the
>>>> >> checkbox itself or do a multi select manually.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> This has been an issue for a few of our users mistakenly deleting
>>>
>>> emails.
>>>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can this code be adjusted so when clicking on an email itself for
>>>> >> the purpose or preview it does not check it in the checkbox
>>>> >> column... only if you click the check box?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Dave
>>>> >
>>>> > This has been the behaviour since the first dynamic webmail version
>>>> > almost 10 years ago. Changing this would in return confuse every of
>>>> > our existing users.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Jan Schneider
>>>> > The Horde Project
>>>> > https://www.horde.org/
>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>> ----- End message from Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> -----
>>>>
>>>> I had raised the same issue sometime in February 2014 with subject
>>>> "Some of our users are loosing their mails.".  But, issue was rejected
>>>> by the developer team.
>>>>
>>>> It is not a complaint. But, still a suggestion to re-look at this
>>>> issue.  Our users are still facing this issue once in a while.  User
>>>> is either able to manage by looking at Trash or asking admin to
>>>> retrieve it as part of unexpunge feature of cyrus-imap.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the issue is not that it selects email message on the preview,
> but
>>> that clicking checkbox doesn't unselect previously clicked message. I
>>> don't remember much how IMP dynamic interface works because I'm not using
>>> it anymore, but in my opinion just clicking on the checkbox should be
>>> equal to clicking on the subject. This goes the same for multiselection
>>> when using Shift or Ctrl on the keyboard.
>>>
>>> --
>>>    Vilius
>>
>>
>> This would make it a radiobox instead of a checkbox and you could no
> longer select multiple messages.
>
> I disagree.  Like the OP and other contributors, if I want to select
> multiple messages, I will click precisely on multiple checkboxes.  But if I
> click on one checkbox and then click on another subject field, I expect
> only the newly selected email to be selected and processed with any delete
> action.
>
> The way gmail/yahoo/outlook does it.

And Horde too.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/