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THANK YOU a million times over.
I just can't believe the geeks a Google won't add a stupid Delete button. Even better, let me customize my own little toolbar.

To me, a simple Delete button is standard equipment. Glad to see I'm not the only one in the world that thinks this way.

Would there be localization in the future? I use Gmail in Dutch and "Delete" should say "Verwijder". If it won't it's no problem at all.... It still works great.

If the tab window is saved, on reload of FF, delete button is not created, only on refresh will appear

Cristian

Hello,

Is there a way to move the "delete" button to the right of the "archive" button? I'm already used to having that button there, and I've already deleted more than a couple of messages by accident...

Keep up the great work, though!

Work fine with 3.3. :)

Works like a charm! Thank you so much for coming up with this! It's awesome!

This fills a much-needed void (heh).

This button is great for deleting an entire conversation. However, if I want to delete a message in the middle of a threaded conversation, I have to click "More options", then move the mouse to click "Trash this message". Can you extend this?

I have shortucts turned off in GMail. When I go to Compose Mail, and start typing, whenever I type the leter 'd' - it pops up an error:

BUG! Could find button. Please alert the author.

Yes, it says "Could" not "Couldn't".

Any thoughts?

Sorry about that guys.

I realized I can fix the problem by going to Tools > User Script Commands > GMail Delete Button HotKey and deleting the "d" out of there.

nice one. thanks.

Since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 I don't have the handy delete button anymore. I guess it can be some incompatibility with other FF extensions, but I cannot figure it out. Do you have any clue? Thanks for the neat work!

Please insure that you have the latest version of greasemonkey & of Gmail Delete Button. Older versions are not compatible with Firefox 1.5. To upgrade, select Tools | Extensions from the menu & click on each extension & click the upgrade button.

The feature is great. Yahoo mail has a delete button which has the behavior of going to the next message after being hit when in a message. Do you think that would be a reasonable feature for this?

Please let me know if I am correct on this:

From what I understand of gmail's technology infrastructure this is only a partial solution.

When mail comes into gmail it is stored in a centralized database; a link to that message is put in your inbox. this way if 100 people on gmail get the same exact email it is only stored once, but 100 pointers to the message exist in people's email boxes.

This tool might allow you to "delete" it from your inbox but from what I can see (I could be wrong) it only removes the pointer from your inbox to the actual stored message. The message itself is never deleted. right?

I noticed that the delete button stopped working today... then I noticed that there were 2 delete buttons. Looks like gmail now has a delete button. Yippie!

Thanks for the work Anthony!

The only other gmail related extension that I have is 'Gmail Manager (0.4.2)'. I do not have the GreaseMonkey extension, so that does not appear to be it. I decided to fire up IE, and sure enough, I have a Delete button in IE (to the left of the pull down menu) too!

Maybe I am just 'special' ;-)

I just noticed I couldn't use it anymore, and then saw the second button (and the lack of "delete" option in the drop-down menu).
Needless to say, I came here right away to thank you for having made this an extension. It really saved many seconds of my life!
Thanks a lot! Hope you make some other button, maybe Gmail will add it too ;) (a "mark as read" button! lol, half-joking)
Cheers!

Since Google added theirs, I now have two buttons, one of which does not work. How do I undo the script originally added?

Just wanted to thanks for the wonderful extension you made, that gave us the delete functionality while google didn't have it yet. Noticed it today when I tried to click the delete, and nothing happened.

Thanks again for your past work! :)

I haven't noticed the new Delete button by Google until I tried to use the old one (and it didn't work anymore). So now that Google added the button, I uninstalled the extension from Firefox, as it's not necessary anymore.

P.S.: I liked your Delete button better. Thank you for your work.

Check out it out! Google has added a delete button to their gmail service.

The new addition by Google does not include a keyboard shortcut to delete. I would find that extremely useful! Let us know if you decide that it is worth you time :)

I also love the keyboard shortcut from your Gmail Delete.
I can't believe Google's Delete button doesn't have that shortcut.
Do let us know if you gonna add the delete shortcut. If not, I might get my hands dirty.

Hi Anthony Lieuallen ...dont stop! We need greasemonkey script with lots of other ideas.
1) "attach

How about creating a delete button for individual messages (as opposed to the entire conversation)

Gmail lacks a shortcut key to delete a message, you were smarter than they. How hard would it be to lose the button and add/keep the shortcut key working?

Gmail lacks a shortcut key to delete a message, you were smarter than they. How hard would it be to lose the button and add/keep the shortcut key working?

U know that gmail finally added delete button, so now we have 2 delete buttons that one of them doesn't work. So how can I remove it?

Hi, your script is very useful, please keep maintain the project. Because google did not added a shortcut for delete. I modified the script for aviod display two delete button, and fixed shortcut when the interafce have a delete button already.


--- gmail-delete-button-3.4.user.js 2006-02-19 15:17:05.000000000 +0800
+++ gmail-delete-button-3.4-rex.user.js 2006-02-19 20:39:46.000000000 +0800
@@ -54,10 +54,15 @@

function _gdb_watch_key(e) {
var el=e.target;
- var button=e.target.ownerDocument.getElementById('_gdb_');
+ var button = e.target.ownerDocument.getElementById('ac_tr');

- //check if there is a delete button showing now
- if (!button) return;
+ // check if there is a delete button showing now
+ if (!button) {
+ button = e.target.ownerDocument.getElementById('_gdb_');
+ }
+ if (!button) {
+ return;
+ }

//check if we pressed the right key
if (String.fromCharCode(e.which) != GM_getValue('key', 'd')) return;
@@ -76,11 +81,13 @@
//find container
var action='tr';
var cont=button;
- while (null!=cont && 'TABLE'!=cont.tagName) cont=cont.parentNode;
- if (!cont) return;
+ while (null!=cont && 'TABLE'!=cont.tagName)
+ cont=cont.parentNode;
+ if (!cont)
+ return;

//find action box in container
- var box=cont.getElementsByTagName('select')[0];
+ var box = cont.getElementsByTagName('select')[0];
box=box.wrappedJSObject || box;
box.onfocus();
var action_index=-1;
@@ -90,15 +97,35 @@
break;
}
}
- if (-1==action_index) return;
+ if (action_index != -1) {
+ //trigger action via box
+ box.selectedIndex=action_index;
+ box.onchange();
+ }
+ if(button.id == "ac_tr") {
+ fakeMouseEvent(button, "click");
+ }
+}
+
+function fakeMouseEvent(node, eventType) {
+ var event = node.ownerDocument.createEvent("MouseEvents");
+
+ event.initMouseEvent(eventType,
+ true, // can bubble
+ true, // cancellable
+ node.ownerDocument.defaultView,
+ 1, // clicks
+ 50, 50, // screen coordinates
+ 50, 50, // client coordinates
+ false, false, false, false, // control/alt/shift/meta
+ 0, // button,
+ node);

- //trigger action via box
- box.selectedIndex=action_index;
- box.onchange();
+ node.dispatchEvent(event);
}

if ('undefined'==typeof GM_registerMenuCommand) {
- //we're an extension, no GM apis
+ //we are an extension, no GM apis
function GM_getValue(a,b) {return b;}
} else {
//we're a user script
@@ -243,13 +270,14 @@
//noop, just catch errors
}
}
-} else if (window.document.location.href.match(/search=(drafts|trash|spam)/)) {
- //hide the button where it doesn't belong via CSS
- //we get a little flicker, but such is life
- GM_addStyle('#_gdb_hold { display: none; }');
+} else if (window.document.location.href.match(/search=(inbox|query|drafts|trash|spam|cat)/)) {
+ // hide the button where it doesn't belong via CSS
+ // we get a little flicker, but such is life
+ GM_addStyle('#_gdb_hold { display: none; }');
+ GM_addStyle('#_gdb_ { display: none; }');
} else {
- window.addEventListener('click', _gdb_watch_click, true);
- window.addEventListener('keypress', _gdb_watch_key, true);
+ window.addEventListener('click', _gdb_watch_click, true);
}
+window.addEventListener('keypress', _gdb_watch_key, true);

})();

http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2006/02/19/gmail-delete-shortcut/

I know It's a little too late, but I was thinking about this the other day. Thanks for your efforts! Keep up the good work on your future endeavors.

James http://www.webascender.com/