Comment 6 for bug 460483

Small correction to my previous post. In the Evolution case there are two possibilities.

if it is in the current workspace already, clicking on the applet makes it receive focus and the difference in workflow is not that bad. It still exists, though, because this is forcing you to open evolution in the same workspace you are working (effectively killing the point why workspaces exist in the first place) and makes you either minimize or unfocus evolution after replying, which is inconsistent with Empathy/Pidgin/Gwibber where you can click on the close button to hide the window.

If it is not in the current workspace, it is even WORSE than what I previously described because it does not automatically changes workspaces as I incorrectly remembered: it merely makes the taskbar item calls for your attention and you have to change workspaces MANUALLY. I believe this almost kills the point of the applet since there's almost no benefit to clicking on it.

By the way, sorry about the caps if someone is annoyed by them. I wanted to use bold but the editor does not allow it.