Idea #1778: Evolution: Minimize to Tray Icon

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Written by miketech the 29 Feb 08 at 20:09. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

When minimizing Evolution it should be placed in the systray as icon. An email client is opened the whole session in most cases and since evolution informs via the tray icon about new mails a task bar entry is not needed.

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Idea #10654: Evolution should be able to hide into a tray icon. (104 votes)

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Remmy wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:10

Evolution
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http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

This is a Gnome Project issue. Not a Canonical or Ubuntu one.
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wolfwitch wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:12

Thanks Remmy, for this one and several others.

It's hard for a lot of users to separate Ubuntu from all the wonderful software it comes with.

miketech wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:17

Why should this be separated? Here the developers can take a look if users are interested in a feature. In Bugzilla it is simply one more bug report. A lot of bug reports don't receive attention.

nixeagle wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:40

I think this is something that the gnome/evolution folks need to work with, not exactly ubuntu. :S. I will say that kmail does this properly in KDE, so it should be doable in gnome as well.

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 22:42

Some say it's against Gnome HIG but I also disagree.

Bruce wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 09:37

For the time being, everyone who wishes to dock Evolution in the system tray (notification area) please take a look at AllTray (http://alltray.sourceforge.net/). With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray.

AllTray isn't being actively maintained but it still works to this day even though the last release is from July 2006. One quirk on my system is that you should not click the close button in the top right (it will actually close the application instead of docking it). Also note that using a keyboard shortcut such as ALT + F4 will also close the application.

You can grab it from the website or install it through Synaptic (/apt) since it is in the universe repository.

Bruce wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 09:44

I'd like to clarify that in my previous comment when I stated "you should not click the close button in the top right" this doesn't refer to the whole button, just the top right bit of the button itself.

Since I use Metacity I thought I'd test it with Compiz (compiz --replace) and turns out it works fine (the previous quirk also doesn't seem to occur).

spacew wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 04:34

I like evolution. And I would really like to be able to minimize it to the system tray.

xeriouxi wrote on the 10 Nov 08 at 16:24

I requested this as a feature but I got told it was against the HIG for GNOME. I understand they have to have certain guidelines etc. but not giving the user the option to do so is a little bit silly, IMO. It's not impacting the default functionality in any way by putting an option in the Preferences area.

If you flat-out refuse options that will be useful to many people based on the very limiting HIG then the alternatives will start looking a lot more tempting. Guidelines, not rules, devs...

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