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

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Khurshid,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:26 PM, Khurshid Alam 
<khurshid alam linuxmail org> wrote:
> Sorry for late reply.
>
> I am against removing --hidden option. I want to autostart geary but 
> I don't want it to popup every-time system reboots.  To start geary 
> silently in background, --hidden is required. No? May be you could 
> separate autostart option from  "always watch for new mail".

Good points. Removing it would also break backwards compatibility with 
existing autostart desktop files, and it's handy for testing, so yeah, 
I'll leave it in.

> For notification, I prefer in-app settings as it is because non every 
> desktop use gnome-control-center.

What desktop do you use? I'd be surprised if it didn't support 
disabling notifications from certain apps in some way or another. In 
any case when that pref is removed, Geary will simply default to always 
sending notifications, and so it's up to the desktop to prevent them 
showing, not the other way around, if that helps.

> > Preference: "Notify of new mail in the background"
> > Tooltip: "Geary will remain running even when the main window is 
> > closed"
>
> I prefer this more. Text for preference and tooltip can be changed 
> though as suggested before.

That makes sense with both the original intention behind the preference 
as well as what I thought it say, but as Federico pointed out the 
"notifications" part of that will only work if not only that pref is 
enabled, but the Show Notifications pref is also enabled, and also the 
desktop environment is also configured to allow Geary's notificatons to 
show up, making it very easy for the "Notify of new mail..." part to 
simply not work, despite the preference being ticked. This would be a 
pretty poor user experience, so 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'll make sure that 
notifications are mentioned as a use of it in the user manual, at least.

Cheers,
//Mike

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