From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:04:44 +0200
Subject: [sup-talk] Notification tools
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Excerpts from Henri Ducrocq's message of Thu May 14 02:23:00 +0200 2009:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM, William Morgan <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> It isn't :)
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> I don't use Gnome or KDE (or anything really.)
> Re. the notification-daemon tip, that's what I'm doing already (via a python
> script of mine, I didn't know about notify-bin!), but sure it isn't the
> same.
> What I might do: Have after-poll dump the number of unread messages into a
> file,
> and display that value in my dzen status bar. It might be good enough.

I'm doing something quite similar:

I have a status-bar-text hook.

$ cat ~/.sup/hooks/status-bar-text.rb
dir = ENV['HOME']+'/.sup/'
state_new = dir+'state.new'
File.open(state_new, 'w') do |f|
  f.puts "SupState { sup_num_inbox_unread = #{num_inbox_unread} }"
end
File.rename(state_new, dir+'state') rescue nil
nil

Then I have tweaked my xmonad config to inject the contents of this
file in my dzen bar.

Best regards,

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard