GMail TrayIcon 10

Posted by jbevain Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:30:14 GMT


I’ve played with Lego today

Well, it was some kind of special Lego… I’ve taken bricks from :

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

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  1. Craig Duquette Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:57:44 GMT

    Hi! I saw this post at monologue and I’m intested in getting something started. I didn’t know Google had “ATOM” feeds for Gmail. I made a script for Openbox for gmail using libgmail and was thinking of making a tray icon program, but wasn’t sure how to call a python lib file in mono. Anyway it seems you did the hard stuff, I think the other stuff would be easier. If anyone is interested in helping also email me. We need a repo, I can get a SVN one if absolutely needed.

  2. Kyle Ambroff Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:45:46 GMT

    There is a project called mail-notification which is really nice.

    http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/

    Just thought you might like to know.
    -kyle

  3. Chris Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:10:35 GMT

    Hi,

    Is it possible for you to extend this app to include support for POP and IMAP? The reason I ask is because mail-notification uses too many resources (>50 MB RAM).

    Maybe I can help out.

    /Chris

  4. wm_eddie Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:48:37 GMT

    I’ve implemented the things you asked for, probably in a bad way, but it was quick. (I’m pretty sure it leaks window references.)

    I’ve uploaded it to my website wm-eddie.info/pub/gmailtray.tar.gz

    Let me know if anyone else makes any changes.

  5. wm_eddie Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:49:43 GMT

    I didn’t implement the pop-up window though, I don’t like them.

  6. Cr3pE Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:17:15 GMT

    Implemented too. Great in order to learn programming.
    I’ve added the pop-up window and the base for internationalisation.

    http://membres.lycos.fr/corkmc/Gmailtray.tar.gz

    (sorry for my english)

  7. Craig Duquette Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:27:17 GMT

    @Cr3pE your source doesn’t compile, I get these errors…

    syntax error, got token `OPEN_BRACE’
    Applet.cs(133) error CS1002: Expecting `;’
    Applet.cs(150) error CS0116: A namespace can only contain types and namespace declarations
    Applet.cs(155) error CS0116: A namespace can only contain types and namespace declarations
    Applet.cs(160) error CS0116: A namespace can only contain types and namespace declarations
    Applet.cs(166) error CS0116: A namespace can only contain types and namespace declarations
    Applet.cs(175) error CS0116: A namespace can only contain types and namespace declarations
    syntax error, got token `CLOSE_BRACE’
    Applet.cs(186) error CS8025: Parsing error

  8. wm_eddie Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:02:04 GMT

    I updated my tar.gz with some HIG compliant dialogs. This is about as far as I’m going to go with it.

    http://www.wm-eddie.info/pub/gmailtray.tar.gz

  9. Cr3pE Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:40:09 GMT

    Hum… I’ve the same error when I compile with the command line but nothing when I compile with MonoDevelop…
    Any idea? (I’m on ubuntu)

  10. Cr3pE Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:14:11 GMT

    Ok. It’s updated. I don’t know why the ‘‘ was unvisible :s…
    Thanks! :)