Re: [Ayatana] Evolution

[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, and without needing the window open.

On May 19, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Wolter Hellmund <wolterh6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 21:15 -0700, Tyler Brainerd wrote:
>> I wrote in length at OMG! Ubuntu about the current weakness of
>> Evolution, but I figured I ought to bring it up here as well,
>> specifically in a few areas concerning primarily Ayatana.
>>
>>
>> There have been numerous bug reports about the crappy behavior of
>> Evolution with the messenging applet, and we really seriously need to
>> get these things fixed by 10.10. Specifically, Evolution behaves
>> completely opposite form all the other apps in the applet, as it must
>> have a window open to work, while the others all close to the applet.
>> We can argue back and forth about which is the right way to do it,
>> but
>> we need to make them all the same now and we can argue about which
>> way
>> later. Consistency now and then we'll change them all as a whole.
>>
>>
>> Secondly, because of the fact that it doesn't close to the applet,
>> then when new messages show up, and you click it, nothing happens. If
>> its on a different workspace, you don't move there, and it opens the
>> main window rather then the message itself. Again, totally
>> inconsistent and really obnoxious. When I get new messages in Empathy
>> and I click the new message in the applet, then just that
>> conversation
>> opens, not my friends list. Evolution should follow suit.
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> True, I think Evolution is making a bit of a mess in the indicator
> applet... so, if I get you right, you want evolution to show just the
> Mail and Compose New Message options (which I think shouldn't have
> sentence capitalization), and then show arriving mail as items on the
> menu as well?
>
>
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