Thunderbird

[Dirk Freitag]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> On 13/08/2010 17:39, Dirk Freitag wrote:
>>
>> On 08/13/2010 03:32 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13/08/2010 17:21, Dirk Freitag wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/13/2010 03:04 AM, Thomas Yao wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/08/2010 06:59, Preston Hagar wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
>>>>>>> <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>      wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are there good notifiers for thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux 10.04
>>>>>>>> desktop,I mean if i click on it i am able to open the message ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kaushal
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have searched long and hard for this since my upgrade to Lucid
>>>>>>> (10.04) and subsequent upgrade to Thunderbird 3.  I am right now using
>>>>>>> a combination of FireTray:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4868/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and Libnotify Popups:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/11530/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> [pruned]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for pointing out the above 2 extensions and their pros/cons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I have to ask - simply out of curiosity - why would one need to have
>>>>>> an addon installed for this purpose when it only takes a simple click on
>>>>>> a desktop icon where Thunderbird is running to see if TB has received
>>>>>> new mail for you? Obviously there must be at least one reason otherwise
>>>>>> the addon would not have been written, nor maintained, but what is that
>>>>>> reason?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it because by having this addon you can read the mail while you are
>>>>>> using a different application on a different Desktop? If so, doesn't
>>>>>> this overwrite the screen with TB mail?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BC
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>> Just add an add-on called "minimizetoTray plus" and it works well
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Just did this for my netbook to get back into the ubuntu email list.
>>>> minimize to tray is nice.
>>>>
>>> But this, nor Thomas Yao's post, answers my question.
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, are you looking for a better notifier than the one thunderbird comes with?  Because if you minimize thunderbird, it will notify you when an email comes in and you can click on the title to open the message.
>>
>>
>> So are you looking for a prettier version of this, or are you just trying to get rid of the thunderbird taskbar when minimized?
>
> You haven't been following this thread it would seem.
>
> I am not looking for any notifier, or any addon to do with anything to do with a notifier. The OP asked some question about such a notifier, got some responses; I asked a question, and in which you are now involved, and got yourself quagmired in :-) .
>
> All I asked is what is shown in the posts to which you are now responding to (above) :-) .
>
> BC
>
>
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> Don't resent getting old - a great many are denied the privelege.
>
>

Oh alright.  My apologies, I thought you were another person just
asking an extended one of the OP.  Very well.  :)

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