Hi all, Let me start the discussion by saying I agree with Matthew:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-coherent-behavior-for-apps-in-messagingmenu http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/ "The engineering solution here is for messaging clients to split out the code that checks for new messages, so that it can optionally run even while the rest of the application is not." However, I don't think this separation is coming anytime soon. Meanwhile, for several releases now Evolution is being the only inconsistent application in the Messaging Menu, the only that quits on close, the only one that needs to be present on both the MM and the taskbar (soon to be Unity Launcher). Thunderbird is getting Messaging Menu support with the exact same problem, and to make things worse we will now not only have redundancy of presence, but also redundancy of information presentation: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/evolution-indicator/trunk/revision/77 http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/thunderbird-getting-some-unity-love/ Evolution/Thunderbird should be on the launcher, or the messaging menu, but *not* on both of them. I don't expect a patch that modularizes Evolution or Thunderbird dropping from the sky, so we need a short term solution instead of continuing to ship the current, horribly redundant, situation. My suggestion is to either accept Geoff Goehle's patch: https://code.launchpad.net/~goehle/evolution-indicator/dont-quit-on-close/+merge/42151 or to remove Evolution from the Messaging Menu entirely, as it can be argued that email is not something you should be interested in being constantly notified about anyway and Evolution consumes a lot of memory. (see pitti's comments in the first link) Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
