On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 09:23 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > That's an option of course, but I'm so used to have certain programs, > > the ones always open, available in the systray it's hard to adapt to a > > new way of doing it. Skype, xchat, truecrypt, dropbox and Opera works > > like that. It would be really great if Evo had that option as well since > > it it a program most users have open at all times like the ones > > mentioned above. > I may be missing something here, but I was under the impression that the > systray was a container to hold things for notifying you of an event -
+1 > i.e. things that ran in the background as a (userland) daemon. It's not > a container to hold gui programs while you want them out of the way. Exactly that is what a dock is for; and several docks are available for GNOME - beyond the normal window-list applet (which I'll admit can get cumbersome). > The only one of those progs you mention that are doing the "wrong" thing > is Opera - all the rest are hanging around waiting for an external > event. +1 > This may be a bit of the mark, but if you want a program to be hanging > around running but not visible, why not, err, minimise it. Then all you > have to do is to click on the little rectangle in the window list > applet. Or the [illuminated] icon in the dock. > What's more, if you leave Evo running in a minimised state, then another > copy of Evo starts up virtually immediately without going through all > the initial checks for new mail. +1 Also, isn't there an evo quick-start applet or something? There was once upon a time [I have evolution just set to automatically start when my session begins]. > I have a launcher for Evo in the top > bar of my window - the first click on there will launch Evo, subsequent > clicks will create a new window that is ready for use straight away. > Why is "minimise to systray" necessary? It is definitely frown upon by the GNOME PTBs for just the reasons described. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
