Re: [Evolution] Can evolution show the count of unseen emails?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 12:09 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > No, it's been there for a couple of releases I think.  The
> > > asterisk
> > > goes away if you visit the folder and comes back when a new
> > > message
> > > arrives.  The only thing is that it's not a very obvious change -
> > > at
> > > least with some icon sets.  Perhaps there needs to be an option
> > > to 
> > > make it more obvious - for example to change the colour of the
> > > folder 
> > > text or something like that.
> >
> > As I say, it makes the folder title boldface. Otherwise there's no
> > change (not just "not very obvious" but none whatever).
> No, it's different to making the folder bold.
> The folder title being bold is determined by whether there are any
> unread messages in the folder, even if the folder has been visited.
> The
> asterisk in the folder icon appears if messages have arrived since
> the
> folder was last opened.
> Some examples below (and sorry for the HTML mail!).  My spam folder
> before visiting it:
> Spam folder after visiting, but not reading anything:
>
> So you can see if messages have arrived without remembering how many
> unread messages you had previously.P.

I changed icon theme to the default Gnome one and I now see it. It's so
faint (light yellow on an off-white background) as to be virtually
invisible. Never noticed it before. And after changing it back to my
usual theme (Breeze) it's still there. Maybe it was always there and I
just didn't see it. Or maybe not. It's a mystery ...

poc