Bug 188557

Summary: "Random" highlighting of taskbar entry & "mark taskbar entry" notification not working.
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: bugzilla
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: bjoern, bugzilla
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.10.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description bugzilla 2009-03-31 18:09:42 UTC 
Version:           1.10.3 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) "release 4.9", openSUSE 11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae

I have set my new mail notifications to include the highlighting of the taskbar entry.

However, the taskbar entry is often highlighted, even when KMail is not in focus, and there is no new mail.  Also, when new mail does arrive, and the taskbar entry does not get highlighted (unless it already is highlighted).

Basicly,  there doesn't seem to be any meaningful pattern to when the taskbar entry is and isn't highlighted.

Motivation for bug report:  I have to keep bringing up the KMail window to check to see if I have new mail

Thanks for a great mail client - been using it happily for many years :)
Comment 1 bugzilla 2009-03-31 18:12:51 UTC 
I've set the notification for new mail to appear in the system tray - this works fine, so is an effective workaround for this problem.
Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2010-02-22 12:28:28 UTC 
Since KDE 4.2 I see the highlighting working as it should. Have to disable mail notifaction for trash of course - or I'm notified when spam is moved to there.