Gmail Notifier is a notifier for Gnome type desktops on Linux. It displays a tray icon with the number of unread messages and pops up an alert when new mail is received to your Gmail account.
The app is using the Atom Gmail Inbox Feed.
This is a maintenance release of the Debianised package gmail-notify . The original app appears to be unmaintained since 2008.
What’s new:
- Profiles. Users can now register multiple Gmail accounts. An individual tray icon will appear for each account.
- New layout of the popup box. The new layout allows to preview more information from new emails.
- Password obfuscation. This prevents casual users from reading the password in the config file.
- Durations in the configuration dialog are now in seconds rather than miliseconds.
- Bug fix: message encoding with cgi.escape rather than regular expressions.
To do:
- New message logic based on message Id rather than inbox counter.
- Show more than one message snippet.
- Password encryption with Gnome Keyring.
- Refactor to separate GUI from logic.
- Installer and error messages to assist installation.
This package was debianized by Joseph Smidt <jsmidt@byu.edu> in 2006. It was downloaded from http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/
Copyright 2004,2005 John Winter <wintersoft@gmail.com>
A big thanks to Juan Grande for his large amount of development work. Thank you also to Richard Viney and Japostoles for their very helpful code contributions and testing.
- Python (python)
- PyGTK (python-gtk2)
- Egg TrayIcon (python-eggtrayicon)
- GTK
First, run the app from the console with notifier.py for testing. To set multiple profiles, you can run multiple instances with notifier.py -p <profile name>.
If all goes well, add the command line with the full path to the app folder in the Session and Startup preferences of your desktop.
Password obfuscation is backward compatible with old notifier.conf config files. Users will be warned to update their Preferences / Configuration. Opening the Configuration dialog and clicking [OK] will update the file.
Tray icons
Popup box
