Re: [Geary] "Always watch for new mail" preference: better alternatives?

[Stephen Michel <stephen michel tufts edu>]

Sorry I'm so late to this discussion. Replies inline.
>  Preference: "Notify of new mail in the background"
>  Tooltip: "Geary will remain running even when the main window is
>  closed"

FWIW, Polari, the gnome irc client, uses "Run in Background" as the 
name of the option and puts it in the system drop-down menu (although I 
don't suggest we do the latter; Polari only has this one setting, so it 
makes sense there).

I'm pretty sure when this is enabled, Polari does start on boot, 
although there is no tooltip to this effect, so I don't think we should 
be concerned about confusion here, *particularly* if we add a tooltip 
with additional explanation.

>  For me the purpose of "always watch for new mail" was downloading
>  messages while I was doing something else, so when I opened Geary I
>  didn't have to wait for the sync and I could start reading right
>  away.

This is the same reason why I keep the setting enabled, and I don't 
really see a case for when I would want geary to run in the background 
but not autostart.

>  to prevent that confusion it's probably
>  best to not mention notifications in the run-in-the-background pref 
> at
>  all, despite it being a useful side-effect.

I have a suggestion here: When notifications are enabled but running in 
the background is not, display a warning below the background 
preference (or an exclamation point next to it with a warning 
mouseover), "You will need to leave geary open in order to recieve 
notifications."

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