Gmail Notifier
Author: Michael Tom-Wing
Description: A Gmail Notifier that makes use of libnotify and the Indicator Applet in GNOME.
License: GPL
Dependencies: python-notify, python-indicate, python-feedparser
Distributions: Tested on Ubuntu 9.10, might work on others
Screenshots:
Documentation: Yes
Download: v1.6.1, v1.6, v1.5.2, v1.5, v1.4, v1.3, v1.2, v1.1, v1.0
Apt Repo: deb http://repo.ahadiel.org/apt karmic/
Changelog:
v1.6.1:
- Fixed gmail-notifier.py from closing if there is no valid internet connection.
v1.6:
- Added a configuration GUI.
- Added a way to skip the initial timeout.
v1.5.2:
- Fixed a few regressions.
- Increased the timeout before the initial mail check.
v1.5:
- Minor code changes.
v1.4:
- Moved standalone debs to apt repo (see docs)
- Interval input format has been changed
- ie. 1d20m30s ~ 1 day, 20mins, 30secs
v1.3:
- Re-implemented Gnome Keyring support
- Switched to .deb releases
v1.2:
- Preliminary support for listing emails within the Indicator-Applet
v1.1:
- Support for storing email and password in the Gnome Keyring
v1.0:
- Initial release
November 29th, 2009 - 15:13
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Bit of a regression in my opinion for 1.5. Occasionally I leave emails marked as unread. Now the indicator-applet icon is always darkened unless there are no new unread emails.
November 30th, 2009 - 12:46
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Linux Mint/8 (Helena) Firefox/3.5.5
Really nice , i’m glad to use it since one week.
1.5.2 gave me a bug : no notifications at all but if i click the icon , the mails are listed there.
Perhaps my installation , i’ll check that …
Just 2 things :
- is it possible to add the default “notification-message-email.svg” icon in the notification bubble ? I think it would be nice since when the bubble appear , sometimes , you don’t have the time to read what program notify you but your eyes have the time to quickly check if it’s a mail or another thing perhaps less important.
- could you add a fonction to open the default mailer program ? ( with a choice for example at first start : use default program or use webmail with a simple checkbox )
November 30th, 2009 - 17:39
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.260.0 Safari/532.5
Hrm, I’ll have to troubleshoot it later this week when I get some time.
I’ll also see what I can do about your 2 suggestions. The first one will be included in the next release, but I’m not much of a GTK programmer so the second might take some time.
November 30th, 2009 - 23:11
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.260.0 Safari/532.5
“1.5.2 gave me a bug : no notifications at all but if i click the icon , the mails are listed there.”
This is the way it’s supposed to be (until I find the signal that’s triggered when a user clicks the indicator-applet). If an unread email is still unread by the next email check, then it’s alert flag is False, and therefore does not trigger the indicator-applet to light up.
December 18th, 2009 - 06:58
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.270.0 Safari/532.7
Where’s the source? If is not just me that have missed a link somewhere, I would like to request that you publish the source somewhere or send it to me in an email. Bonus points if you put up a repo
December 18th, 2009 - 12:40
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0
Well, considering it’s just a python script… the source is in “/usr/bin/gmail-notifier.py”.
January 5th, 2010 - 01:28
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.43 Safari/532.5
better just with multiple accounts and password encryption
January 5th, 2010 - 19:09
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.267.0 Safari/532.6
Assuming the Gnome Keyring encrypts anything stored within it, the password is already being encrypted.
February 6th, 2010 - 12:05
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009033100 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.8
Please, move the download link to have a greater visibility
in the page, ie. to the top. So that people can click it right when
they come here. That’s anyway the main “meat” they are looking for. Thank you very much for an excellent software!!! Cheers,
Repe
February 6th, 2010 - 14:52
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
I moved it up a bit on the page.
February 9th, 2010 - 02:14
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100124 (CK-IBM) Firefox/3.6 (Swiftfox) GTB7.0
I’m running 1.6.1 on Karmic but I find that sometimes it gets “stuck” so that it no longer updates… for example today I checked the menu and the latest items it showed were 2 days old (I suspend/resume my machine between locations a lot).
February 13th, 2010 - 10:24
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.21 Version/10.50
I think this is probably due to the mail checking thread not reactivating when you resume your computer.
I’ll try and work up an automatic solution, or at least add a reset button.
February 14th, 2010 - 10:34
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.307.5 Safari/532.9
THX !!
GooD JoB
February 18th, 2010 - 03:59
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100124 (CK-IBM) Firefox/3.6 (Swiftfox) GTB7.0
Tiny weirdness – seems like the Close button on the About dialog doesn’t work? I have to click the close window control on the titlebar.