GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 415200
Notification Area icon and pop-up hint
Last modified: 2012-01-27 12:18:34 UTC
I suggest that the programme hides in the "Notification Area", not in the "Window List". because the mailer is needed throughout the day and it should not be mixed with other programmes. (see ) Also, I would like to add a "new mail" pop-up hint, like in MS Outlook P.S. Look at the http://growl.info/ very interesting project. Other information: I could help you with the design of the icons and the notification area background
Created attachment 84039 [details] That is my image of this idea
Is this a dupe of Bug 127516?
Also 342159... What we really need is a small daemon like application, similar to mail-notification¹, but integrated with evolution. Just the "fetch mail" process of evo, wrapped into a tiny daemon. Unlike mail-notification, it would dowanload the mails to e-d-s and not just notify, so that the mails would already be there when evo is started. Is something like this possible with the evo libs or would most parts have to be rewritten? [1] http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
A background process independent of the Evolution application would also afford more flexibility. A user might choose not to use Evolution at all, but little apps such as the Pimlico suite's calendar and todo parts, and a separate lightweight email client to access mail. This would be an email supplement to the Telepathy approach, where users can potentially choose from a wide variety of clients.
There are no plans to abuse the notification area for minimizing applications (as it is not a systray). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 127516 ***