Auto-launching of applications

[Chris Cheney]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 14:56 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:19 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > You and I (and most Ubuntu developers) are in a small fraction of people
> > who are confident in clicking things even when we don't know what they
> > are. Last year, a schoolteacher friend of mine -- who is much smarter
> > and more well-read than I will ever be -- went to the trouble of taking
> > a screenshot of his Windows screen, printing it out in color, and
> > bringing it to me to ask what all the icons next to the clock were. The
> > idea of hovering over the icons or clicking on them hadn't even occurred
> > to him.
> 
> Perhaps you can explain to me why Evolution doesn't pop up automatically
> every hour, as some people don't know what the strange envelope icon is.
> 
> I'd like it if my (rather long) post to this list was moderated, it took
> me ages to write it.

It does for me... is that a bug? I get the stupid evolution notification
popup window automatically now, seemingly every time it checks for
email, since I am on many lists. Note this is separate from the black
notification window in the upper right corner.