Running 2.4.7 on Solaris 8. I am trying to acquaint myself with the TaskBar's mail indicator behavior, using a "surrogate" mailbox (a dummy file I have designated as the MailBox) and surrogate mail messages (adding to/removing from the file by hand, then deleting it).
Here's what I am seeing. 1. The mailbox is checked every MailCheck seconds _provided_ the TaskBar has work to do (like updating buttons due to window focus changes). If the TaskBar is idle, the mailbox is not checked until the UpdateInterval timer expires. I've found that I need to set both MailCheck and UpdateInterval to the same low value, say 5, to get timely mail indicator updates when the TaskBar is otherwise idle. I'm not necessarily advocating a code change, but some hints in the man page as to the interrelationship between these two parameters might be worthwhile. [Side note: The man page states that the default value for UpdateInterval is 60. It's actually 30, isn't it?] 2. Single-clicking the "new" mail indicator unconditionally returns the indicator to its "old mail" state. Until the mailbox is actually re-read, the indicator and its tooltip are in conflict. A nit, to be sure. 3. In the "no mail" case, when no icon is rendered, the empty space still sports a tooltip, and MailCommand can still be launched with a double-click (both of which seem non-intuitive). Perhaps TaskBar could be enhanced to show three different icons for the no-mail, old-mail and new-mail cases. Perhaps all three icons could be config options. Gregg Dameron -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
