I started using Geary as an e-mail client in Gnome. I wanted something lightweight, and I am also tired of configuring the way Thunderbird looks each time I update. I don’t really understand what those devs are doing, they are supposed to be just doing security updates, but they added a chat stack in it. I wouldn’t mind if my layouts would stay consistent between updates, but I feel like I am struggling against them, so I am done.
Anyhow, Geary is pretty okay, especially considering it is very early in development. One issue I had with the Ubuntu GNOME Remix is that installing it doesn’t also install a menu item. I don’t actually use the menu/dashboard view, but I do use my terminal, and I don’t like having Geary take it over to read mail.
It was as easy to fix using Alacarte, an odd layover from earlier versions of Gnome. I was skeptical it would work, but it did. If you don’t have it installed, it probably goes by the package name of alacarte.
In Alacarte you can just add a “New Item”. Mine is configured as such:
Some folks were saying it wouldn’t show up until they restarted their session, which is easiest to do by logging out and back in. I didn’t have to do that.