296683 - New mail notifier on GNOME's Panel Notification Area

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 478463

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4

Thunderbird has noway to alert new mails to user.  That's a good job to add a
notifier to GNOME's Panel Notificaton Area (AFAIK, also will work on new KDE
realses because of freedesktop.org's standards).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 235455?

Comment 2

[Bastiaan Jacques]

Related, but not a dupe IMO. A new mail notification icon exists in the windows
version of thunderbird; it should exist in the other versions as well.

An extension which achieves this functionality exists for stable thunderbird
versions: http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/

Comment 3

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> An extension which achieves this functionality exists for stable thunderbird
> versions: http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/

Thanks for link and the plugin. ;)

It has some bug/misfeatures that I want to say here because I think thunderbird
should have this feature when compiling with enable-gtk.

- There's no way to select inboxes you want plugin works for;
- Clicking on notification, doesn't open the folder contains a new mail;

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

See bug 18732.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Confirming this as Thunderbird's version of bug 18732.