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Bug 251224 - The Shell's Mail button changes when you have new mail
The Shell's Mail button changes when you have new mail
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 329823
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
: 255974 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-20 17:53 UTC by Tim Lee
Modified: 2008-04-01 11:40 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tim Lee 2003-11-20 17:53:31 UTC 
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Description of Problem:
It would be nice if the Shell's Mail button could change in some way
(different icon?) when you have new mail in your inbox. 

The simplest solution would probably be to just have the button indicate
when there are unread messages in the Inbox. If possible however I think a
more useful solution would be to have the button change when there are new
messages that have arrived since the last time you were in the Mail component.
Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2004-01-05 14:22:53 UTC 
No time for 2.0.
Comment 2 Darius Mazeika 2004-10-25 18:45:04 UTC 
*** bug 255974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Darius Mazeika 2004-10-25 19:00:29 UTC 
I really miss the old functionality of Evolution v1.4 of the traybar
button. In v1.4 the count of unread mails in current folder was shown
next to icon & program name.

This saves time & clicks, since the new mail status is easily visible
without the need to come back to the mailer window.

Is it possible to have similar functionality in v2.0?

I am using Evolution 2.0.2 from Debian unstable under lt_LT.UTF-8 locale
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-02-13 21:35:29 UTC 
darius: your last comment is bug 260354 (showing the count of unread 
mails in the current folder next to icon & program name in the window 
list).
Comment 5 André Klapper 2005-08-24 16:15:15 UTC 
punting to 2.5
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-03-05 01:22:07 UTC 
changing target milestone from 2.5 to future. sorry, too many bugs, too less time.
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2008-04-01 11:40:50 UTC 
This was done during work on bug #329823, so marking as a duplicate.
It has one little caveat, when you run in calendar, and the mail component is not running yet, then it will not change the icon. I'm not sure whether it's noticeable by ordinary users, though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329823 ***