Tidying up after Linux 16781

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To each their own. When I first encountered multi-desktops, they seemed rather pointless. Took me a while to get used to them, now I find not having them is really, really annoying, just as you would likely find the inability to run multiple apps would be really, really annoying.

Here's another item I've been finding annoying for the last few days while I've been working mostly in Windows - mail apps. I'm used to KMail, where I have it set up so that when I close it, it does the Right Thing(tm) by buggering off to the system tray. There's no taskbar entry, just the system tray, where it continues to poll for mail.

The Windows mail apps I've tried thus far don't seem able to do this; they live on the task bar, or not at all. There may be such a critter out there, but I ain't found it yet. Again, a small thing, but annoying not to have it once you're used to it.

A lot of it comes down to simple housekeeping. I work more efficiently when I can get from app A to app B when I need to, without wading through (often collapsed) sets of taskbar entries. Multiple desktops, apps which iconize to the system tray, these are but two ways of letting me get the most done with the least effort, and missing either, let alone both, is really annoying.