The setting "notify_with_tray" is being clobbered on every alarm daemon start. That is painful for two reasons: it dumps crud in ~/.gconf that we don't need, and it also turns this setting on un-conditionally on start [ which is exposed in the GUI, and we might want turned off - eg. for MeeGo which has no systray ].

So: from calendar/gui/alarm-notify/config-data.c:

state = gconf_client_get_bool (conf_client,
		      "/apps/evolution/calendar/notify/notify_with_tray",
		      NULL);
if (!state) /* Should be old client*/ {
	GSList *source;
	gconf_client_set_bool (conf_client,
		      "/apps/evolution/calendar/notify/notify_with_tray",
		      TRUE,
		      NULL);
	source = gconf_client_get_list (conf_client,
				"/apps/evolution/calendar/sources",
				GCONF_VALUE_STRING,
				NULL);
	gconf_client_set_list (conf_client,
			       key,
			       GCONF_VALUE_STRING,
			       source,
			       NULL);

So - we just set that boolean to TRUE if it is not set ? why ?

Were we really just trying to detect that that key was not set ? And since that code dates back to oh - 2007 or before; can we just cut it out ? :-)

Failing that, could we make it actually check for the key's non-existence rather than whether it is set to false ? I believe that can be done with gconf_client_get_without_default() - or something ?

Thanks. [ I've patched this out for MeeGo ].