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Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

After the latest Thunderbird update (136.0-1) the running instance shows a taskbar symbol named "Thunderbird Daily".

This symbols context menu only contains "Quit Mozilla Thunderbird".

Is this a "feature" of the "Thunderbird Daily" release channel? Is this behavior expected?

OpusOne

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Registered: 2023-05-31

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

Yes I noticed it as well. I just disabled the icon in the system tray ("always hidden"): it serves apparently zero purpose apart from quitting Thunderbird. I was at least hoping it would show the number of unread messages; it does not!

Fixxer

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

Confirm. I've also noticed issues with systray-x addon (many many big thanks to Ximi1970 for him and his work - only for him).

Who's sick of sluggish, crappy, half-baked, blunt Thundersnork, please test Evolution (evolution + evolution-on packages). I'm using it since a couple days on Xfce. You'll be healthier, physically and emotionally...

Last edited by Fixxer (2025-03-11 19:53:49)

new_here11

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Registered: 2024-11-05

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

After the latest Thunderbird update (136.0-1) the running instance shows a taskbar symbol named "Thunderbird Daily".

This symbols context menu only contains "Quit Mozilla Thunderbird".

Is this a "feature" of the "Thunderbird Daily" release channel? Is this behavior expected?

According to bug 1918035 there is no option to turn the task bar icon off yet.
Strangely, the bug was reported half a year ago by one their own devs. They had plenty of time to fix it until they merge it to stable branch.

On the bright side it's just the thunderbird logo and not a sad red face like bug 1953034.

OpusOne

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

According to bug 1918035 there is no option to turn the task bar icon off yet.

There is on KDE Plasma. I did. You can hide the icon in the system tray. So you don't have to see it all the time, while it serves no purpose. But it still shows in the icon menu, as any other that is "hidden". Not as annoying. But still, zero purpose.

In that same vein, Thunderbird used to log notifications (so you'd have the new mail in the notification list), and it stopped doing so some months ago. Very annoying. It's not listed in the list of apps that you can configure notifications for. Why, who knows. Hopeless.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

In that same vein, Thunderbird used to log notifications (so you'd have the new mail in the notification list), and it stopped doing so some months ago.

It still does that for me on X11 / lxqt / openbox, might be a setting on your system or a plasma/wayland specific issue.

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OpusOne

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Registered: 2023-05-31

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Re: Latest Thunderbird (136.0) behaviour

In that same vein, Thunderbird used to log notifications (so you'd have the new mail in the notification list), and it stopped doing so some months ago.

It still does that for me on X11 / lxqt / openbox, might be a setting on your system or a plasma/wayland specific issue.

Yes, but I don't know if it comes from a change that was made on KDE or a change made on Thunderbird itself, that triggered this change of behavior for notifications.

I don't know how KDE Plasma determines which apps should be listed in the notification settings specifically. It used to be listed, so we could set the expected behavior for it specifically. Now it's not listed anymore, so we can only rely on the "other applications" settings, but I don't want to enable notification history for ALL other applications, so I'm stuck.

Now that I'm looking back at this issue and trying to figure it out, I just noticed (silly me, hadn't before!) that the list of apps in the notification settings seems limited to 10, and there are 10 already listed in there, in alphabetical order (as far as I can tell), and the last one is "Spectacle", so, that could just be that there is no room left for Thunderbird. If that's just what it is, that's pretty ridiculous.

If anyone knows how we can have the notification settings list more apps than 10 in there, I'll be grateful!