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Bug 270691 - a systray for evolution
a systray for evolution
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127516
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Harish Krishnaswamy
Evolution QA team
: 272365 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-20 13:40 UTC by Patrizio Bassi
Modified: 2006-01-22 20:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Patrizio Bassi 2004-12-20 13:40:46 UTC 
This is a feature request: 
 
add a systray (maybe optional) to evolution. 
 
systray should support all the most used WM like gnome, kde and xfce... 
 
eggtrayicon.h/c is a good gtk library to provide a cross WM tray. 
 
BASIC features: tray should let hide/show evolution gui (just gui.show()/hide() 
method provided by gtk) and should let close the app. 
Not difficult at all. 
 
it ma be very funny if it noticied new mail arrive. 
Scenario: evolution is reduced to tray nad you've setted a mail autofecth every X 
mins. 
When a mail arrive tray may flash or produce a sound to notify the user.. 
 
like.. outlook (coff coff!!) way.
Comment 1 Rodney Dawes 2005-02-09 21:22:25 UTC 
*** bug 272365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-11-08 15:02:18 UTC 
in order to destroy the UI component (as discussed with jpr, dobey, and nags),
changing component and reassigning. adding usability keyword.
developers, please reassign appropriately if necessary.
Comment 3 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-01-22 19:16:57 UTC 
This is a request that has been discussed pretty often. Basically, the "tray" is not intended for stuff like this (thus it's name "notification area"). Minimizing an app is the window managers duty anyway. And "closing into the tray" just means, "get rid of of the entry in the window list applet". Beside, it will be confusing, cause Evo will not be closed, but still run and consume resources (like memory).

Anyway, duplicate of 127516 -- so your thoughts won't be forgotton but always visible when dealing with that bug.


Thanks for taking the time to report this. Please feel free to report any further bugs you find or suggestions.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127516 ***
Comment 4 Patrizio Bassi 2006-01-22 20:23:23 UTC 
i understand your motivation.
actually i switched to thunderbird so i'm no more interested.

However the "Tray" area is generally no more used for notifications only.
It's very confortable to have the app running (using memory as you said) but almost hidden, acting as "deamon" waked up when the user acts with tray.

That's the goal of all new tray icons. Consider that, maybe for Gnome politics.

Bye!