2011/9/7 Carl Ansell <afccarl1...@hotmail.com> > Thanks, I found a bug report on this and the bug has since been fixed. It > now also notifies me of new messages and turns the envelope blue. However, I > still need to have Thunderbird open for this to work, which makes it a bit > pointless as the Unity launcher has the counter to also alert me of new > messages. > > This is why I propose that Thunderbird should be allowed to run as a > background process to check for messages, so that the Thunderbird window > does not need to be constantly open. > > This is something that has been bugging me for years!
On Windows, there is a extension that can hide Thunderbird into the notification area. I don't really know what is involved, but wouldn't it be possible to create an Linux-specific extension that hides Thunderbird into its indicator-applet? Or maybe this could be handled by the applet itself, with no need for an extension (can a different process hide/show a window? I think wmctrl can do that - if so, the modifications to the indicator applet shouldn't be too complex!)
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