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[dani planas armangue <daniplanas.a@xxxxxxxxx>]

>On the subject of Evolution's use of the indicator tray...


>Does this seem counter intuitive to anyone? The indicator is used just
>as a notice of how many notifications you've had since you focused
>Evolution, apparently, meaning that even if you have all sorts of
things >in evolution that need your attention, but even accidentally
focus it >for a fraction of a second, all that state is thrown out.


>Compare this to the behavior of gm-notify
>( https://launchpad.net/gm-notify ). It's not perfect,  and it's
>gmail-specific...  but its entry in the messaging menu tells you how
>many messages you haven't read, and in what folders. This seems like a
>much more predictable, stable, and intuitive model.


>Thoughts?


I believe this right now, look:

If an icon is displayed with counter, which show? mails, conversations,
note that the indicator is a messaging menu for more than one
application.

so when you get a new thing is the osd notifications to inform you in
detail what is happening, the panel icon just says that is "new
messages" when you decide to display it. no need counter i think.

Daniel Planas.A
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