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[Wolter Hellmund <wolterh6@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?