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daihard

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Friday, September 30th 2005, 6:54pm

[KMAIL] System tray icon shows up with no unread mail

Hi.

I am wondering if anyone can help me with this. I enabled the feature in KMail that lets it sit in the KDE system tray. Under the "System Tray Mode" are two choices: (1) Alway show KMail in system tray, and (2) Only show KMail in system tray if there are unread messages.

I selected (2). However, once I close the KMail main window, the icon shows up in the system tray whether or not I have unread messages in my mailboxes. This is a minor nuisance, but it still bothers me as I don't want to open KMail just to check for new messages.

Does this feature actually work? Or am I doing something wrong?

I am using KMail 1.8.2 w/ KDE 3.4.2.

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Saturday, October 1st 2005, 4:15pm

My guess is that if you close the main window, it has to add itself to the tray otherwise you would have no way to get it back.


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daihard

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Saturday, October 1st 2005, 8:21pm

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Originally posted by anda_skoa
My guess is that if you close the main window, it has to add itself to the tray otherwise you would have no way to get it back.

Ah, I see. That makes sense.

I've also found that when there's new mail, the system tray icon will show the number of the new messages. Not nearly as inconvenient as I was afraid. :)

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