Re: [Evolution] Cannot install Evolution Tray plugin.

[Dominic Knight <dominicknight gmx com>]

On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 10:40 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is "evolution-tray-0.0.8" and where exactly to find it? When was
> it updated for the last time? Which version of Evolution are you
> running? Do you have the corresponding development packages
> installed?
>
> andre
>
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 17:56 +0000, Erasmo Aguilera wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to install evolution-tray-0.0.8 without success.
> >
> > First I got an error complaining about gconf headers not found.
> > Then
> > I
> > realized the plugin expected gconf headers to be installed
> > in /usr/local/include instead of /usr/include. So I created a
> > symbolic
> > link to solve the problem.
> >
> > But now I get this error messages:
> >
> > In file included from tray.c:35:0:
> > /usr/include/evolution-3.10/e-util/e-config.h:25:2: error: #error
> > "Only
> > <e-util/e-util.h> should be included directly."
> >  #error "Only <e-util/e-util.h> should be included directly."
> >   ^
> > In file included
> > from /usr/include/evolution-3.10/e-util/e-config.h:296:0,
> >                  from tray.c:35:
> > /usr/include/evolution-3.10/e-util/e-plugin.h:23:2: error: #error
> > "Only
> > <e-util/e-util.h> should be included directly."
> >  #error "Only <e-util/e-util.h> should be included directly."
> >   ^
> > tray.c:45:33: fatal error: mail/e-mail-session.h: No such file or
> > directory
> >  #include <mail/e-mail-session.h>
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Erasmo.

Apparently similar to (2) mail-notification (which is ok but for me
tends to vanish randomly) (1) Evolution-tray doesn't seem to have been
worked on for many years, I was going to suggest (3) alltray as an
alternative but it looks like that hasn't been worked on for years
either with a number of outstanding bugs on the sourceforge page. It is
packaged for Debian testing though so maybe it is being worked on
there. Debian has a wiki (4) for Evolution Mail-Notification if it is
of use to anyone.

(1) Evolution-tray http://gnome.eu.org/evo/index.php/Evolution_Tray
(2) Mail-notification http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
(3) Alltray http://freecode.com/projects/alltray
(4) Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/EvolutionMailNotification