mail-notification

[Patrick Doyle]

On 7/20/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 14:59 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > I just installed the "mail-notification" package from extras on my
> > newly minted FC5 box and I am curious...
> >
> > Why did I have to install mail-notification?
> >
> > Or, equivalently, why doesn't the default GUI (Gnome2) and Email
> > client (Evolution) have a feature to display an email icon when new
> > mail is received?
>
> Evolution has that feature. Under Edit-> preferences -> Mail Preferences
> -> General. You can choose no notification or various forms of
> notification. Not an icon though.
>
I saw that... but I didn't want a beep (or worse, some audio file)
played whenever I received an email.  I wanted an icon.

mail-notification does exactly what I want it to do, I am just curious
as to why it isn't considered to be a "core" application.  Or, did I
miss some other method for getting an icon to display?

Perhaps I'm in the minority in wanting an icon instead of a sound.
(It is a seldom seen occurrence that my preferences and those of the
majority of the rest of the world coincide.)  :-)

--wpd