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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 02:27, Paul Sladen <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How would this work with Hotmail/Gmail?  These mail clients are highly
> popular but there's going to need to be some cunning level of
> integration to have that experience "just work".
>

Very important case that's largely unaddressed right now. Should you run
evolution or thunderbird just to get these notifications? Is there a better
indicator-only reader that will probably address these cases?

Jeremy: were you originally referring to the workflow where (eg. after
> your morning login) *no applications have yet been started*, but you'd
> still like to see a notification that there are "10 messages and 147
> spams" that have arrived overnight?  ---Prompting you to then start
> the mail client itself?
>

That's a big one for me.

My feeling is the root cause of this is closely tied to the missing UI for
deciding what is and isn't in the messaging menu (currently managed by a
config file in ~/.local/indicators/messaging/blacklist, or something
similarly obscure :) ). There's similarly a missing UI for deciding which of
these things should be a part of the sign-on session. If evolution (or a
notification-only client) could be naturally be a part of the session
startup, living in the indicator, and not going away when the client windows
are closed, we'd be a lot better off. Addressing sessions XOR window-closing
will probably just further confuse the issue (making it look more like it's
doing what's expected, but not actually doing so).

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