Rollup into Menubar or Dock Icon

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What feature or enhancement do you propose?
As an option, Rollup should be able to occur into the menubar widget and/or 
dock icon, rather than displaying on screen.

In the case of the menubar widget it should pulse, or become badged, while the 
dock icon would display a badge (and optionally bounce). In both cases 
indicating that Rollup has occurred, and with badging would indicate how many 
messages are pending.

Clicking the menubar would show Rollup within its menu (or a sub-menu to 
separate from History?) while the Dock would do the same if right-clicked, or 
if clicked would display the normal Rollup list in the centre of the screen.

What problem does it solve/What benefit does it provide?
As with issue #371 this would provide a more minimal display for Rollup, 
without the intrusive central display that we currently have. Unlike #371 
however this would require the user to have the menubar widget and/or dock icon 
enabled.

Ideally this issue should be considered alongside #371 (which is more 
universal), and preferably be added as well as an option so that users have 
full control over how they address Rollup. As currently it's either a case of 
putting up with it, or disabling it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by harav...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2011 at 10:20

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The badging is a good idea, most people are confused by the pulsing in 1.3.1 
that you requested it seems. I like the pulsing, but perhaps badging is easier 
to understand. Thoughts on how to make that easier to understand versus 
switching to badging the menubar icon?

We cannot assume the user has a dock or menubar icon. We don't know what 
percentage of people are not using these, but if I had to guess I'd say it's a 
high amount of people disabling the dock icon and menubar icon since it was one 
of our biggest requests after 1.3 came out. How does that play into this? :)

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 17 Nov 2011 at 3:57

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How about if it docked to the side of the screen and only appeared when the 
cursor was near?

Original comment by mistermi...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2012 at 4:46

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Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 22 May 2012 at 12:31

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Sorry for the delay, just wanted to respond to comment #1. Basically I'm not 
sure that accommodating users without a menubar widget or dock icon is 
something you'd really want to do, as it'd mean maintaining a third option. 
Besides which, I think that with this feature more users may be encouraged to 
enable either the menubar widget or dock icon in order to take advantage of it; 
the feature could possibly be presented in such a way that it will ask the user 
to enable or one or both features.

Otherwise I think that the third-option could possibly be covered by issue 
#372, proposing the ability to have Rollup appear as a less obtrusive 
notification.

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 22 May 2012 at 9:01

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Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 27 Aug 2012 at 1:38

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