GMail TrayIcon 08 Jun 2005

I've played with Lego today

Well, it was some kind of special Lego... I've taken bricks from :

• A nice tutorial about Tray Icons for GNOME
• An perfect and simple example
• An amazing Mono Live
• GPL icons from a nice project
• A simple ATOM feed

With those bricks, I've made a very simple and totally incomplete GMail Notification Icon for GNOME. It looks like that:

Yet, it's no really usable. Username and password are hard-coded, and you just know if you have, or not, unread mails.

If someone is willing to use my code to produce a better applet, he would not have a lot of things to do. The list is simple:

• Use GConf to save username and password
• Write a really simple window to ask user whether or not username and password have to be stored
• Write another simple window to be shown when a new mail arrives, and then disappears

This nice person will find the code here: GMailTray