[feature-request] More fluid way to delete emails
asked 2014-12-20 15:19:55 +0200
What I miss from the iOS Mail app is the quick way to delete emails by just swiping them away.
The Sailfish equivalent is long-pressing to open the contextual menu, then selecting "delete". But this is not as handy, because:
- It takes longer; you need to wait for the context menu.
- The remorse timer makes the experience jumpy: When I delete an email, the timer starts ticking. I scroll down to see more messages. After a few seconds, when the timer finishes and the message disappears from the list, the view jumps. This gets worse if I have initiated more than one deletion. And if I happen to be in the middle of deleting another email with the context menu, the menu jumps also.
- The email should disappear immediately after the timer finishes. However, when deleting multiple emails in a row, it's instantaneous only on the first one, and on the following ones there's a delay after the timer finishes and before the email vanishes from the list.
With multiple selection ("Select emails" in the pulley menu) it's more fluid, but there's an extra step there to enter the selection mode, and the pulley menu is not always quickly accessible (if I'm not at the top of the list).
This is not a big issue as such. But on iOS it's delightfully easy and fast to make some cleaning while I'm checking my inbox, and I'd like to see same kind of fluidity here – so that the Email app would be a joy to use.
I don't know how this should be done in Sailfish, as the swipe to side gesture used in iOS has other uses. Having configurable remorse timers would help the jumping issue, and a configurable delay for context menus would speed the process up a bit. Maybe these together would be a decent solution, not requiring new gestures or changes in UI logic. Any other suggestions?
I agree. The delete timer has some conceptual flaws. I would like to add that after deleting an email/message/anything you have to wait out the timer before you can exit the application, otherwise it will not be deleted. This can be a bit annoying at times.
Pistol ( 2014-12-20 15:44:27 +0200 )editSwiping stuff away should also work for dismissing notifications in the events view.
bilgy_no1 ( 2014-12-20 22:56:51 +0200 )edit@bilgy_no1, yes, that's definitely another place where a quick dismiss/delete gesture is needed.
ssahla ( 2014-12-20 23:23:33 +0200 )editWould LOVE a swipe to the left for 'mark as read' and swipe to the right for delete!
dirkvl ( 2014-12-21 15:51:03 +0200 )editI agree. Swipe to delete is the best way, and for histories sake, wasn't introduced by iOS but webOS. ;-D Still, it's a bit problematic on Sailifish because the swipe gesture is taken. Though one...but at least (!) the mails should be properly deleted, regardless of closing the app in the meatime.
lispy ( 2015-03-17 09:53:08 +0200 )edit