First of all: thanks for your quick and helpful answer. On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:47 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> However, if evo is running, but just minimized, then you'll definitely > get appointment notifications. They pop up on the screen via > evolution-alarm-notify. The other way arround would be nice: a systray context-menu with entries like "new mail/appointment/task/contact/...". > For new mail, evo emits a dbus message whenever > new mail arrives (if you built with the dbus use flag). The > mail-notification package seems to have a systray applet for this. That might be the keyword i am searching for. Thanks for the hint, i'll give it a try. > Appointments and tasks are available via the > calendar applet [...] The calendar applet crashes on my system, and i have not yet figured out why. > I'm not aware of any way to get evo to minimize to the tray, the way > gaim does. Okay. I just thougt i was missing any hidden features ;-) I think it could be a good idea to get a evo-to-systray function. > In general, work still needs to be done to make it seamless, but all the > pieces seem to be in place. I didn't knew about the dbus thing. But looks like the basics are there and could need some smoothing. I really like the way kde does systray-integration and the enclosed notification area it uses. There are definitely some things gnome could learn from it's "big brother". (I know gnome is not kde as kde is not gnome :) ) Regards, Bennet -- A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer
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