Sure, this was also a nice way to be lazy, avoid engaging my intellect, and stay out of that elusive, terrifying state of flow, but it somehow seemed gratuitously obsessive. Instead of waiting for new mail to arrive to abandon my focus, I had to regularly toggle between applications to see what the world might have to say to me. When I switched to using Mozilla Thunderbird on Ubuntu GNU/Linux, it was a very easy switch, but I missed my little tray notifier. I guess you might get a mailbox, which I seem to remember seeing at one time with Eudora.) It’s almost always going to be a cute little representation of a snail mail envelope though, right? The side with the paper seams and folds, of course, since that is immediately recognizable with small icons. (In my screen capture here, I don’t have an example of a Windows new mail icon, since I no longer have access at home to a Windows machine with a mail program that receives mail. That blessed little envelope icon with its siren call to drop whatever you’re doing at the moment and read your email, in the hopes that this new message will finally change your life for the better, perhaps with a promise of millions of dollars from some third world country. System tray hijacking thus promoted further innovation from Microsoft in later versions of Windows that alternately nag you about unused icons, or hide them from you automatically.Īnyway, one important notification that you want is for new mail. This is the place where thoughtless application programmers stuff icons for their programs programs that often don’t deserve or need such a prominent piece of real estate. If you regularly use or have used Windows, you’re familiar with the taskbar’s notification area (often called the “system tray”), canonically found in the lower right of your screen.
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