I'm aware of that. In fact I filed a feature request nearly three years ago but to no effect so far:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271140 poc On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 06:47 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Difficult maybe. I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't know, but kmail and > thunderbird both have this capability, and I have used it quite often. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: Re: [Evolution] Is there a command for "undo" in Evo? > Date: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:18 pm > Size: 1K > To: Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: evolution-list <evolution-list@gnome.org> > > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 17:06 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 12:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 10:23 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > > > If for example you transfer a mail to a particular folder--or if you > > > > transfer 100 mails to a particular folder-- and then realize you made a > > > > mistake, then is there a command to "undo" the transfer so that the > > > > mails come back to where you had them? > > > > > > No there isn't, but I agree that it would be useful. > > > > > > Unfortunately "undo" frameworks are not trivial to add, especially if > > > you're trying to retrofit an application that was not designed with an > > > "undo" capability in mind from the start. > > > > It is surprising to hear that no such capability was included from the > > start. Until I switched over to Linux/Evo around 5 months ago, I was > > using Win98 with Eudora Light which is email software from 1997. And > > even that had it. > > > > Do you think it was an oversight perhaps, that they forgot to include > > it, or rather an intentional decision to leave out? > > IMHO a general undo would be fairly difficult to implement, however the > more restricted case of "undelete" would still be immensely useful and > doesn't sound hard to do. I know you can hunt for the deleted message > and undelete it, but this can be hard to do when you have Hide Deleted > Messages turned on, together with Group By Threads for example. > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
