About to ditch Evolution...unless you can help me

[timzak]

I'm ready to ditch Evolution for Thunderbird + Lightning because of how Evolution notifies me of calendar events. Am I doing something wrong, or is this how Evolution works? When Evolution reminds me of a calendar event, I see a tiny notification icon. If I left-click this icon, ONLY THEN does a window pop up with my reminder. If I accidentally right-click the notification icon, the reminder disappears!

Is there a way to configure Evolution so that all my calendar reminders automatically pop up a window with the event reminder? I keep missing events because the notification icon is too subtle and I don't notice it.

In previous experience, Thunderbird + Lightning was very good with popping reminders up in my face. I can't seem to get Evolution to be as persistent with its reminders. I really don't want to get rid of Evolution because of how well it integrates into the Gnome desktop, but this reminder thing is important enough that if I can't fix it, I'll have to switch.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

[lyni]

I downloaded Osmo which is a personal organiser and it does have a yellow bubble which comes up with your reminder. it is a .deb package and can be downloaded from getdeb.net. just a suggestion that may be one way of saving you having to totally change your email program.

[timzak]

Thank you for the suggestion. I've played with Osmo in Puppy Linux and see that it is a nice program. I could also use Mozilla Sunbird, which is a standalone version of the Lightning extension.

I guess I am wondering from other Evolution users if my experience with reminders is consistent with theirs. Please, Evolution users, can you tell me this? I don't know if this is how Evo is, or if I need to reconfigure it.

It was suggested to me in the Evolution mail list that my issue is specific to Ubuntu, because they had automatic reminder popups running Evolution in another distribution.