From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:54:53 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] Notification tools In-Reply-To: <1242213878-sup-4217@ptoseis> References: <1242213878-sup-4217@ptoseis> Message-ID: <1242239740-sup-8633@entry> Reformatted excerpts from Henri Ducrocq's message of 2009-05-13: > (First of alli: Thanks William for that very gorgeous piece of > software!) Glad you find it useful! > I would like to use mail-notification (or an equivalent) to display > the status of my inbox in my system tray, I mean the number of unread > emails. But of course that program isn't aware of what messages have > been read inside sup. Sounds great. I'd love to have that too. > What can I do to fix this? I thought about having the after-poll hook > dump all new messages into a dummy mbox file, which would be monitored > by mail-notification.. But there must be a simpler way? Having now read the mail-notification manpage... the problem is mail-notification. It should provide a way for other apps to signal a notification (the whole Unix philosophy of decomposability, etc.) but it does not. Periodically dumping all new messages into a dummy mbox file is a terrible idea, but I think that's your only Sup-specific option. Patching mail-notification is a better idea, though that may not be what you want to hear. If you're using a recent Gnome, you have some other options. If you're running notification-daemon (e.g. Ubuntu 9.04), you can install the libnotify-bin package and having the after-poll hook call notify-bin on new email. (Not quite the same.) You can also look at the indicator-applet: libindicate also has Python bindings, so you could install python-indicate and write a python short program to use that. -- William