Bug 104047

Summary: selecting "all" messages while search filter is active really selects *all* messages, not only the displayed ones
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Jens <jens-bugs.kde.org>
Component: message listAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern, lemma, nospam.foster
Priority: NOR Keywords: triaged
Version: 1.8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jens 2005-04-17 12:09:25 UTC 
Version:           1.8 (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.14-default

To reproduce:

enter some search word in the line above the message list to filter for some messages.
Press ctrl-A. All displayed messages are selected.
Remove the search word above the message list.
BUG: *Still*, all messages are selected. I would expect only the ones  to be selected that I *saw* when I pressed Ctrl-A.

I didn't dare to delete or move "all" selected ones because  I don't know if KMail then acts on the displayed (filtered) list or the whole list.

Please check this out.

Thanks! :)

Jens
Comment 1 Till Adam 2005-05-08 17:36:25 UTC 
It should not act on hidden entries. Can you please confirm this maybe by 
marking all mails with a status you don't normally use, say, todo?
Comment 2 Jens 2005-05-15 17:02:39 UTC 
That works as expected (the tag is applied only to the mails that were shown).

But the above procedure:

1. enter filter string
2. click into message list (to focus it)
3. press ctrl-a
4. delete filter string

does not work as expected (i.e., all messages are marked, and not just those that were visible when I pressed ctrl-a).

Thanks! :)

Jens
Comment 3 Michael Leupold 2008-09-14 20:23:24 UTC 
I can still reproduce this in KDE 4.1.1. As Till Adam noted what you describe is the expected behaviour. I'll therefore make this bug a wish instead.
Comment 4 Nikolai Försterling 2008-09-28 07:19:09 UTC 
Konquerors filemanagement behaviour is similar.
Filter, select all, shift+delete does not delete just the selected items (which is intuitive), too bad ...
Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-21 00:36:36 UTC 
Cannot reproduce anymore