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? > > Or, equivalently, does such a feature exist someplace that I just > couldn't find, short of installing an add-on package? > > Or, most equivalently, what am I missing? :-) > > I am new to FC5, having run SuSE 9.1 for the last couple of years (and > various flavors of RedHat prior to that). I've read the wiki that > describes the distinction between core and extras. It seems odd to me > that some sort of mail notification capability was not considered to > be a "core" feature. It seems so odd as to make me wonder what I'm > missing. > > --wpd > > -- Evolution has that feature. Under Edit-> preferences -> Mail Preferences -> General. You can choose no notification or various forms of notification. Not an icon though. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
