Yes please - right now, there's no way to exit geary besides killing it the hard way, since when you close its window it will hide itself churning cpu and io in the background. I dont know if in gnome environments its supposed to have an icon in the indicator panel, but in environments with only systrays or taskbars, if you close the window, there's no way to know geary is still running.

You can fully exit Geary by choosing Quit from the application menu or pressing Ctrl+Q.

Hah, thanks for the hint. Anyway, that feels so different from usual usage.. when i want an app to stay running in the background, i minimize it, or if it hides itself when using the close button from the WM, at least there's a systray icon showing that it's still here in the background..

<sigh> ... there's a contentious debate about system tray usage, and it doesn't help that GTK+ keeps threatening to mark that API as deprecated.  The system we landed on for running Geary in the background was the best compromise we could find.

Don't worry, i dont want to start a flamewar about it, i know it's a hard debate still going on. At least now i know how it behaves :)

Fix pushed to master as 65c5363.