[opensuse] Thunderbird and System Tray
I had been thinking of switching to Thunderbird. However, I noticed it appears to be lacking one essential feature - a system tray icon showing the number of emails available. I'm on 10.3/KDE 3.5 and have done some searching. I see there is one KDE applet - alltray - and moztraybiff for showing items in the system tray area. However, neither show the number of emails currently unread. Is there somethign you all are using? -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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I had been thinking of switching to Thunderbird. However, I noticed it appears to be lacking one essential feature - a system tray icon showing the number of emails available.
I'm on 10.3/KDE 3.5 and have done some searching. I see there is one KDE applet - alltray - and moztraybiff for showing items in the system tray area.
However, neither show the number of emails currently unread. Is there somethign you all are using?
I usually use the folders view for this as I have unread mail scattered all over the place as most is pre-sorted and the inbox only retains stuff I have no rules for... however, this only seems to update the inbox and any selected folders dynamically, counts of mail delivered to other folders (e.g. by procmail on my server machine) are not normally updated automatically (at least not on my setup). This is not something that usually bothers me a lot as I am using the mailbox alert plugin and this usually informs me of what has been delivered where by folder with an optional different sound alert as appropriate (gets rather noisy sometimes :-) ). However I have noticed the counts are updated if the mail is moved by a Thunderbird filter rule. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkteEsACgkQasN0sSnLmgLT1ACfaa5ol83ynHuh8Idw0EUcEmng lkEAnRfAfdA7Uoc/4LTCQwFXDjkrioLq =Jica -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte said the following on 11/26/2008 10:15 AM:
I had been thinking of switching to Thunderbird. However, I noticed it appears to be lacking one essential feature - a system tray icon showing the number of emails available.
I'm on 10.3/KDE 3.5 and have done some searching. I see there is one KDE applet - alltray - and moztraybiff for showing items in the system tray area.
However, neither show the number of emails currently unread. Is there somethign you all are using?
No, because it makes no sense. At all. Certainly not for me and I think I can show it won' make sense for a lot of other people. Firstly, I have a number of accounts of various IMAP servers all over the western hemisphere. YMMV but I'm told this isn't odd. I own a couple of domains and have various mailboxes at them; I have mailboxes with old clients and sites I support and I have mailboxes for various reasons. In actual fact I don't download much mail onto my laptop/workstation. while I access most of those accounts by IMAP I have a few POP accounts as well. I run FETCHMAIL to pull those and download them and run them though PROCMAIL which in turn filters and puts them in various folders. As a result there are about 20 places where there might be a "new mail" for me. Some of those folders might also change as I move mail from one of my inboxes to a folder. All this is front-ended with Thunderbird. When Thunderbird is active it will show me the number of 'unread' in any folder or inbox. But trying to show me a single figure for unread mail doesn't make sense! Not least of all because I'm not dealing with an inbox on the machine - laptop/workstation - on which I read mail. And yes, this is like the situation that exists for many corporate users of MS Exchange, but more akin to connection to many servers at the same time. Thunderbird is a great MUA; accounts and aliases and IMAP make things so flexible. MS-Windows/Outlook/Exchange users get baffled by this, at first because it seems so complicated, but then when I show what's going on the see its well compartmentalized and managed and incredibly straight forward. -- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:15, Kai Ponte
However, neither show the number of emails currently unread. Is there somethign you all are using?
Hi Kai, I'm not using it, but how about an add-on? There seems to be a couple that may suit[0]. Cheers, h [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=tray&cat=all -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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