Jb in a nutshell: GMail TrayIcon

GMail TrayIcon

jbevain — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:30:14 +0200

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

"GMail TrayIcon" by Cr3pE

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:14:11 +0200

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

"GMail TrayIcon" by Cr3pE

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:40:09 +0200

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)

"GMail TrayIcon" by wm_eddie

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:02:04 +0200

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

"GMail TrayIcon" by Craig Duquette

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:27:17 +0200

@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

"GMail TrayIcon" by Cr3pE

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:17:15 +0200

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)

"GMail TrayIcon" by wm_eddie

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:49:43 +0200

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

"GMail TrayIcon" by wm_eddie

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:48:37 +0200

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.

"GMail TrayIcon" by Chris

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:10:35 +0200

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

"GMail TrayIcon" by Kyle Ambroff

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:45:46 +0200

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

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

Just thought you might like to know.
-kyle

"GMail TrayIcon" by Craig Duquette

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:57:44 +0200

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.