Thank you, thank you for the two workarounds (gconftool magic and plugins), Fergal! I had no idea where the new feature was coming from and had no way to stop Evolution from shattering my focus randomly - I've been having to drop it offline while trying to work, and that makes a quick glance for new email take considerably longer. My brain's sensitive enough to movement that I can't leave browser windows on most newspaper sites left open on the desktop I'm working in (without adblock, that is); they actively bother me.
For the "updates to your Ubuntu available" -popup bubble there was a straightforward fix to poke at the icon and tell it to not pop up, and now we get along splendidly. The email icon, on the other hand, has no interface beyond "click to make this go away until the next mail arrives"; it blinks, pops up a bubble and *keeps blinking* if I try to ignore it. It's been royally stressful (I get kind of much mail, and prefer to choose for myself when to go into interrupt-handling mode). I'd strongly recommend disabling the plugin by default until it both respects the user's notification settings and can be turned off from the notification tray directly. Given the existing ways of notifying for new mail, it's not important enough to warrant the disturbance to users who use Evolution for heavy-duty mail handling. For others, it should be a nice and useful tool once the preferences are ironed out a bit. (E.g. blink/no blink, blink x times then stop, blink x times then go away, popup/no popup would probably be nice modes to choose from.) -- I get visual notifications of new mail despite requesting no notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
