Re: Deleting multiple mails

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009 08:33:40 O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Referrering to KDE 4.3.2 and KMail 1.12.1:
>>
>> when I try to mark several email in the Inbox using the pointer and
>> "shift" button I often get unexpected results.
>>
>> An example: I am on the top email, I move the mouse pointer to an email
>> near the bottom of the email list, hold down Shift and click on it. My
>> expectation is that the the emails from the top "active" mail down to
>> the one indicated will be marked but often it is the ones from "the
>> bottom" of the window and UP to the one I am now clicking on that gets
>> selected. I get different results almost every time unless I mark the
>> whole visible window.
>>
>> This refers to unread emails. If one or several in the visible list have
>> been read I get even more erratic results.
>>
>> And I am not referring to the folder list but the "mails in folder"
>> window whatever it is called.
>>
>> Is this the result of some settings, intentional or a bug of some kind?
>> Anyone knows?
>>
> Sorry that I have no answers for you.  I can only say that your expectation is 
> the correct behaviour, and the normal behaviour in kmail.
> 
> Is this a recent problem, or ever since you installed kmail?  Have you checked 
> with your distro users to see whether anyone else has a problem?
> 
> That's about all I can suggest, at the moment.

This is a competely fresh installation, I am trying out KDE4.3.2 in 
Kubuntu 9.10 Beta. So I have just only started using it and am a bit 
baffled about this.

Will check on the Kubuntu list as well to see if it (somehow) my 
hardware or if others share the experience.

Sinclair