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[#7644] Show empty folder icon only in spam or trash folders
Summary Show empty folder icon only in spam or trash folders
Queue IMP
Queue Version 4.3
Type Enhancement
State Rejected
Priority 1. Low
Owners
Requester leena.heino (at) uta (dot) fi
Created 11/05/2008 (6089 days ago)
Due
Updated 11/06/2008 (6088 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved 11/06/2008 (6088 days ago)
Milestone
Patch Yes

History
11/06/2008 02:03:39 AM Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #4
State ⇒ Rejected
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This is definitely a general purpose function, not one specific to 
spam or trash. If you think the user experience around it needs to be 
approved, please make your case on the mailing list, since I'm sure a 
lot of people have opinions about this.
11/05/2008 06:55:00 PM leena (dot) heino (at) uta (dot) fi Comment #3 Reply to this comment
Why?  Just as an example, some users may have mailboxes set up for
mailing lists and want an easy way to remove all messages from the
mailing list.
At least some of our users confused this icon with expunge function. 
Whereby they

ended up emptying their inboxes. Clicking this icon does warn user the 
whole folder will be emptied, but this still does not seem to stop 
them from emptying their inboxes by mistake.



I chose the trash and spam to mimic the behavior in gmail where you 
can empty the whole spam folder with one click.



Perhaps a better option might be that this is icon is not shown in 
inbox, but might be shown in other mailboxes. Or function behind this 
icon is configurable and you could program it to do expunge instead of 
empty. Or the confirmation message has some sort of delay until the 
user is able to press ok.
11/05/2008 05:52:46 PM Michael Slusarz Comment #2
State ⇒ Feedback
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Why?  Just as an example, some users may have mailboxes set up for 
mailing lists and want an easy way to remove all messages from the 
mailing list.
11/05/2008 05:48:27 PM leena (dot) heino (at) uta (dot) fi Comment #1
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
New Attachment: imp-framework3-emptyicontrash.patch Download
Patch ⇒ Yes
Milestone ⇒
Queue ⇒ IMP
Summary ⇒ Show empty folder icon only in spam or trash folders
Type ⇒ Enhancement
State ⇒ New
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Show empty folder icon only when user is in the defined spam or trash folder.

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