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Bug 335408 - Tray Icon!
Tray Icon!
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127516
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.6.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Harish Krishnaswamy
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-21 19:47 UTC by Ivan Marin
Modified: 2006-03-23 18:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Ivan Marin 2006-03-21 19:47:32 UTC 
Please, please include a tray icon where evolution can be minimized (both to kde 
and gnome), and let the tray shows when the some email comes!
Comment 1 André Klapper 2006-03-21 23:35:11 UTC 
a tray icon is useless unless there is no functionality to minimize evolution to the tray.
new mail can be shown in the tray by several available packages, e.g. libnotify.
or is this more like a duplicate of bug 251224?

we cannot do much about kde. :-/
Comment 2 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-23 18:09:47 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 bug 127516, bug 270257 and bug 270691 -- 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 3 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-23 18:11:07 UTC 
Regarding KDE: The Notification Area is a freedesktop.org standard AFAIK. Thus it already works across desktops.
Comment 4 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-23 18:14:17 UTC 
Oh, and regarding a mail notification app/icon:

There are a lot of small apps that do just this -- notify visibly (among other options) about new mails, the amount of unread mails, etc.

mail-notification is a very good example, that even supports tight Evo integration and knows about any account in Evo. Additionally, you can check remote accounts.