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Bug 342159 - Should run in notification area
Should run in notification area
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127516
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Harish Krishnaswamy
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-17 18:43 UTC by Luis Matos
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Luis Matos 2006-05-17 18:43:52 UTC
quote "When you use Gaim it stays running even when you close out of it so
that if people IM you it opens back up to inform you.  Evolution should
run the same way.  I should be able to check my email, and when I am
done close out of it, but have it so it is still running in my
notification area so when someone emails me it notifies me.  Thanks. :)"

Other information:
This a forward of debian bug no. 356463[1]

[1] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356463
Comment 1 Luis Matos 2006-05-17 18:44:58 UTC
notificating the arrival of email in notification area is a nice like not having the obligation of having evolution open in the desktop.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-08-29 13:43:42 UTC
"minimize it?"
sounds like a WONTFIX to me, definitely. comments? :-)
Comment 3 Luis Matos 2006-08-31 22:58:17 UTC
minimize wont do, because it is not cross desktop and notification area is the place where to put programs that can notify the user of some event.

instead of using an OSD message of new email, for example, you can draw a ballon in notification area.
Comment 4 Cees Timmerman 2006-11-14 12:09:45 UTC
This code notifies: http://beranger.org/index.php?article=1346

I don't know how to make the status icon the only Evo button on the desktop, but if it is, it should change icons to indicate new mail and errors and such.
Comment 5 Luis Matos 2006-11-15 00:40:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> This code notifies: http://beranger.org/index.php?article=1346
> 
> I don't know how to make the status icon the only Evo button on the desktop,
> but if it is, it should change icons to indicate new mail and errors and such.
> 

that is the feature. It can notify you that a mail has arrived or some other stuff, like the osd messages.

A good point is to have the  behavior the same as liferea... that can minimize to the tray icon.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2007-12-21 14:24:35 UTC
> It can notify you that a mail has arrived
that exists in evolution 2.12.

we do NOT want to minimize the entire evolution window to the notification area.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2012-01-27 12:18:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 127516 ***