Re: [Evolution] Feature request - Put Evoluton into system tray

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:42 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> On 14 March 2011 13:18, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 16:00 +0330, Hamzeh Motahari wrote:
> > > I have searched about how to send Evolution to the system tray when I
> > > push exit or minimize button. But It seems this feature is not
> > > implemented. Some popular software like Pidgin or MS Outlook have it
> > > and I think it would not a big feature which needs a lot of efforts.
> > > Of course for now, I use AllTray, but I can't understand why default
> > > Ubuntu (GNOME) mail client doesn't have this trivial feature yet.
> > > Does anyone has any idea?
> > What you want is known as "minimize".
> This is one thing I really like about recent versions of Ubuntu.
> By separating "tray icons" and notifications, both become more useful.
> The idea of a system tray that is used both for notifications and
> "micromizing" applications, is horrible.

Ubuntu??? Straight-up GNOME makes this distinction perfectly clear.

>  This has been proven by
> Windows, where those icons have become so annoying that they've
> actually decided to hide them by default. I'm still on 10.04, though,
> so I don't know if there is any appindicator for Evolution in newer
> Ubuntus yet, but seeing all the requests for Evolution "tray icon", 

There is a notification widget for Evolution, at least in 2.32.