GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 363225
mail notification tray icon
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:51:18 UTC
Hi I would love if I could dock evolution in the system tray, as gaim and other applications does (kmail, thunderbird with extension...). This would make it handy for users to dock it in the tray and have notifications of incoming mails (with libnotify for instance as many other gnome apps do) I've seen there's already mail-notification with evolution integration, but this needs evo running and can't dock it so it's no use. This would be a nice way to have evo running in the bg. Thanks
(In reply to comment #0) > I've seen there's already mail-notification with evolution integration, but > this needs evo running and can't dock it so it's no use. This would be a nice > way to have evo running in the bg. What do you mean by "you can not dock mail-notification"? It's a small app that does exactly this, inform you about new mail in your "Tray" thingy... 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. Thanks for taking the time to report this. Please feel free to report any further suggestions or bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127516 ***
Additional note: If you really want to do this, have Evolution running(!) but not being displayed in your Window List (where it belongs) but rather being displayed in the "Tray" thingy... You can do this using All-Tray: http://alltray.sourceforge.net/