Thunderbird wishes
By glazou on Monday 20 December 2004, 13:00 - Mozilla - Permalink
I wish Mozilla Thunderbird could sit in the Windows application tray instead of taking space in the Task Bar. The email client is not like the other apps on my system, including the browser. It's running all the time when I am at work. There could be an option "Minimize to Application Tray" in Windows builds; with that option on, closing or minimizing Thunderbird's window would leave the app running, but only in the App Tray. Of course, the menu entry Quit will still really quit.
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Shouldn't this be handled by the OS ? as in Mac OS X
Seriously, it's a really good idea, I can't believe it hasn't been made before, and nobody complained...
here's a workaround sniperbeamer.de/tbtray/
I believe "extension" is the word
minimizetotray.mozdev.org...
You forgot to add 'like Outlook'. Personally I find it annoying and switch it off (shouldn't the window manager do this, rather than have each application do it's own thing?).
I would really love to have chatzilla minimized that way so that it blinks when somebody talks to you.
I have the same wishes.
I've tried thundertray and others, but I can't find the exact functionality.
I need thunderbird always running: even if the user closes the application, it must restart.
quick launch ?
I use (and wrote) BlueDock entirely for situations like this. www.nmitchell.co.uk/progr...
It adds a min to tray button for every single window on the system (click on Show Screenshots and you should see exactly what I mean).
I think minimizetotray.mozdev.org... is your answer... Like quietseb said.
It would be nice to have a systray with the number of unread mails.
The entire application does not need to be running, just the part that checks for new mail automatically.
This is bug 208923. I filed this before Thunderbird was even in bugzilla.
That Tbtray didn't work for me... MinimizeToTray does work very smoothly though. Have been using it for a while. I can recommend it.
Try "4t Tray Minimizer Free" on www.4t-niagara.com/tray.h...
Right click on the normal minimize button (or a short cut) -> window to tray. You can have additional buttons for that, but you don't need them.
www.palma.com.au/winroll/ is quite nice for all those features
I really want this feature on linux too. A freedesktop compatible minimize-to-tray function (freedesktop includes kde, gnome, fluxbox, xfce and many other windowmanagers and desktops)