Plug-in evolution-on (systray) for Gnome Evolution

[lefoid]

Hi all,

I would like to share this little tip, on how to have Gnome Evolution going to the systray in LM.

I used to do it with kdocker, and it worked well.

But, I realized that distribution like MX had a systray for Gnome Evolution without any intervention of the user.
I found out that it was a plug-in called "evolution-on".

I managed to install it on LM. Here is what I have done.

First, download the source :

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git clone https://github.com/acidrain42/evolution-on.git

Then, enter the folder :

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cd evolution-on

In order evolution-on to compile, you will need to install some packages (if not already on your system) :

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sudo apt install gnome-common libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev evolution-dev libebook1.2

Then, you can go :

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./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

That's it. Exit Evolution, and start it again. You should have the plug-in evolution-on installed, and Evolution in the systray.
I hope this will help.