On Monday 07 January 2002 07:32 pm, Frank Dekervel wrote: <snip> > > > I liked it when OutLook would insert a tray icon when new mail arrived. > > It made things easy. With Korn/Kbiff I would have to disable interval > > checking in Kmail and check manually when either app notifies me I have > > mail. That's an extra step that shouldn't exist. > > use dcop to do so. if korn/kbiff let you execute a command when a mail > arrives, execute: > > dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail > > and kmail wil check mail.
I believe you can. That's a cool idea, but of course a typical user, like myself, shouldn't need to understand any such under pinnings to achieve something as obvious as a tray icon visually cuing that mail exists. > > I just leave kmail running all the time and check it periodically now. > > It works okay. I decided I didn't want it beep everytime new mail > > arrives, I'd perfer a visual cue, but none are available that are > > unintrusive while I'm working. (That's why OutLook's tray icon worked so > > well.) > > > > > Saadiq
