On 04/09/11 19:22, zekopeko wrote:
Really its checking emails in the background that I would want most of all, and when I heard about all of the work they had done integrating Thunderbird with Unity, I did think that this would be one of the things they had done.On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Carl Ansell<afccarl1994@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 04/09/11 17:39, a.grandi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:Hi, On 4 September 2011 18:12, Kévin PEIGNOT<winniemiel05@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I totally agree. But this have been discussed times ago (with evolution) and it seems not every one want this. 2011/9/3 Carl Ansell<afccarl1994@xxxxxxxxxxx>At present, the only use for the mail icon in the panel is to set up thunderbird (for email anyway). Once an account has been set up, it would be useful for thunderbird to check emails in the background, and turn blue when new emails are available. This would mean the user does not need to keep thunderbird open to check emails and justify the use of a mail icon in the panel.it's a nice idea, we could have an option for that. Probably other user will prefer to have a Unity-launcher icon that does it, but it's better to have both and let the user decide which one to enable. What do you think about?Exactly. Personally, I would want to use the messaging menu, as I feel this is what it is designed for, and would allow me to save space on the launcher for something else. However, I know others would prefer keeping it in the launcher.Why have the option at all? Thunderbird (or any e-mail client for that matter) should continue to check for messages in the background without having the main window open at all. If there is a message you "blue" the messaging menu and add a badge to the launcher if there is an icon in the launcher. Opening Thunderbird via the Launcher or the messaging menu would simply clear the badge and the blue envelope of the messaging menu. Two things would be nice. A global DO NOT DISTURB mode and a option to check for e-mail messages in the background if there is at least one email account active.
I suppose you are right, an option wouldn't really be needed, though I don't know how hard it would be to implement something like this. The notify-osd bubble would also inform you of emails while the blue icon would remain until you read them. I honestly can't think why this hasn't been implemented already tbh.
I also like the DO NOT DISTURB idea, though I know a similar idea for the IM accounts was discussed and not implemented so I wouldn't hold my breath on that.