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Count of unread messsages in dock badge
I find it confusing that the dock badge indicates that there are no unread items when in fact there are. This happens a lot for me when I go to postbox to look up an older mail and then forget that I have unread mail because the dock shows that none are unread.
I would really like the Dock badge to show the total number of unread items. Ideally, with a red background if some of them are "new" since I last focussed the application and with a grey background if they are still unread after focussing the app.
Regards,
Rob...
I would really like the Dock badge to show the total number of unread items. Ideally, with a red background if some of them are "new" since I last focussed the application and with a grey background if they are still unread after focussing the app.
Regards,
Rob...
I’m confused by the current implementation
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Inappropriate?right now it's tracking new messages not necessarily unread messages. We're geting lots of feedback that folks coming from mail.app don't like that behavior since mail.app uses the unread count there.
We're still evaluating what we're going to do there.1 Comment
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This is one of the best points
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There are lots of options.
1) Dockstar style configurability -- My personal favorite
2) Show total unread count for all folders
3) Show total unread count for all inboxes
4) Show new mail count in all inboxes (since last check) -- current behavior
5) Show new mail count in all folders (since last check) -- previous behavior
5) Show a red 'dot' indicating undead mail (no actual count)
6) Show Nothing
I'm sure there are others.
Personally, i /REALLY/ hate what it is doing now. Its ignoring new mail in my folders other than inbox. Those of us that use imap and do a lot of server side sorting are kinda screwed with this behavior, and its a huge complaint about apple's mail (which is why Dockstar exists in the first place). Before Dock star i wrote an apple script that modified the badge based on new mail in all folders that ran via cron every 5 minutes.
My next observation is, no matter what you choose, people will be unhappy. Everyone likes to be notified of new mail in different ways, or not at all.
Do all of the above options, and out it into a configuration pane. Then choose a smart default. On OS X that default should probably be all new mail in all inboxes, to match Mail.Apps behavior. On windows, maybe it should be the way it is to match Thunderbird.
This is one point that I find extremely frustrating though. If i have a ton of windows open in a project I have to constantly check the window manually to see if a piece of mail i am expecting has arrived yet, because I may have missed a notification. And since i DO server side filtering on my imap accounts I can't depend on the unread count at all anymore.
Every time the unread count comes up, i scream on the inside. -
Inappropriate?Looks like "new" is counted from the last time Postbox downloaded mail, not from the last time I switched into the application -- so it's not very effective as a count of new mail, either.
I’m mostly indifferent
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Inappropriate?For me, my tray icon ddisappears when there is no new mail. I would prefer that it is always there and that it changes appearance when there is a new mail. And I would like that to stand out a bit more than it currently does. -
Inappropriate?I still don't like the Dock icon behaviour. I want the default behaviour to be like (5) above in mbond's comment (new mail count in all folders since last check), but this seems not to be the case. I also can't find config options for this. Version 1.0b12 (2009051120)
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Inappropriate?It's totally unusable for me right now!
I want it to display total unread message count. From all accounts. From all folders. Period.
Any further customization is welcome!
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