[MlMt] mailmate on the dock

Sam Hathaway list.mailmate at munkynet.org
Mon Aug 15 10:59:24 EDT 2016


On 15 Aug 2016, at 9:40 AM EDT, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> On 13.08.2016 at 15:55 Uhr +0200 Benny Kjær Nielsen apparently wrote:
>> On 11 Aug 2016, at 17:32, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>>> I just upgraded from build 6047 to 6048 and MM did a strange thing 
>>> -- it left the old icon on the dock and added a new icon. Only the 
>>> new icon had counts (see attachment). I removed the old icon 
>>> manually, but apparently the second icon was only a temp thingy as 
>>> it went away from the dock after I quit MM.
>>>
>>> Anyone else noticed that?
>>
>> I've seen this myself on very rare occasions. I'm not really sure 
>> what triggers it and it's tricky to debug. (I'm not even sure it's a 
>> MailMate only issue.)
>>
>> --
>> Benny
>
> I haven't seen it in any other in-program upgrade so far and most 
> programs use that mechanism nowadays. At first glance, it looks like 
> the script that does the upgrade failed to remove the old icon from 
> the dock. If that happens only rarely, it could be a timing issue.


This happens with some Firefox upgrades as well. It’s certainly not 
MailMate-specific.
-sam


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