Re: [Evolution] Taskbar/Panel New Mail Indicator?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 03:28 +0000, Joseph Voros via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 12:45 +0100, Andre Klapper via evolution-list wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 21:52 -0500, Paul B. via evolution-list wrote:
> > > What I'm looking for is a persistent taskbar indicator.
> >
> > See the many past conversations why "show some app icons in some system
> > tray, but for some reason don't show other running apps there" makes no
> > sense and why GNOME got rid of the system tray concept many years ago.
> >
> > Notifications exist - that's your "new mail indicator". :)
>
> For what it's worth, to do exactly this I am using New Mail Indicator,
> which is a GNOME shell extension, that also works with the Dash to Panel
> (i.e., bottom of screen) GNOME shell extension. In each case, the
> (persistent) indicator is a gray "open envelope" when there is no new mail,
> which changes to a red/orange "closed envelope" when new mail arrives.
>
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1505/new-mail-indicator/ 

I use Evolution with KDE/Plasma. Hovering over a virtual desktop in the
panel widget shows the title bars of windows in that desktop, which in
Evo's case includes the number of unread mails in the currently
selected folder. As Evo has no Plasma-specific code, I assume other DEs
can do similar things.

poc