Your are speedy. Having a repo is great at some point it would be nice if it was authenticated.
How hard is it to get gmail-notifier to show up in the system monitor?
Ive been trying to figure out the indicator-applet icon behavior in regards to gmail-notifier.
It appears to me that it darkens indicating a new mail at the same time a notification bubble appears and then undarkens after a period of time. This behavior essentially duplicates that of the notification bubbles. I am currently trying to work out for myself what the ideal behavior is. Two ideas come to mind.
First. When new email(s) arrive the indicator-applet icon darkens until the icon itself is clicked or the new mail is no longer marked as read by gmail at which point the icon goes back to its normal lighter state.
Second. When new email(s) arrive the indicator-applet icon darkens until the Gmail Notifier title bar has been clicked, any one of the new emails have been clicked, or the emails have been marked as read by gmail at which point the indicator-applet icon goes back to its normal lighter state.
I am leaning toward the first use case as it is simpler and it seems safe to assume that once somebody has clicked the indicator-applet icon they are aware of any new messages. The first use case also I think more closely aligns with the interaction of empathy and the indicator-applet.
cheers Michael I am amazed at how fast gmail-notifier has fulfilled nearly all of my desires for a gmail email notifier.
So I’m having a problem starting gmail-notifier when my computer starts. I have gone to system->preferences-> startup applications and added an entry with the command set as gmail-notifier.py (this is the command of the gmail-notifier menu launcher). For some reason though gmail-notifier never starts up with the computer. It does start up easily if I manually select the launch in applications->internet.
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That’s good to hear. It’s been mostly raining here, except for today! It’s so bright outside…
Now about your issue…
gmail-notifier exits if it’s unable to download your gmail rss feed. This happens in one of the following cases:
1) You entered an invalid username/password.
2) You aren’t connected to the internet.
Are you using wifi? If so, then it’s most likely case #2. AFAIK, nm-applet doesn’t connect automatically. So, if gmail-notifier.py were started before nm-applet had a chance to connect, then it would exit.
I’ll add a longer initial timeout, and perhaps a descriptive error message when I get home.
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Your are speedy. Having a repo is great at some point it would be nice if it was authenticated.
How hard is it to get gmail-notifier to show up in the system monitor?
Ive been trying to figure out the indicator-applet icon behavior in regards to gmail-notifier.
It appears to me that it darkens indicating a new mail at the same time a notification bubble appears and then undarkens after a period of time. This behavior essentially duplicates that of the notification bubbles. I am currently trying to work out for myself what the ideal behavior is. Two ideas come to mind.
First. When new email(s) arrive the indicator-applet icon darkens until the icon itself is clicked or the new mail is no longer marked as read by gmail at which point the icon goes back to its normal lighter state.
Second. When new email(s) arrive the indicator-applet icon darkens until the Gmail Notifier title bar has been clicked, any one of the new emails have been clicked, or the emails have been marked as read by gmail at which point the indicator-applet icon goes back to its normal lighter state.
I am leaning toward the first use case as it is simpler and it seems safe to assume that once somebody has clicked the indicator-applet icon they are aware of any new messages. The first use case also I think more closely aligns with the interaction of empathy and the indicator-applet.
cheers Michael I am amazed at how fast gmail-notifier has fulfilled nearly all of my desires for a gmail email notifier.
elias
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It shows up in the System Monitor as “python” because well, it’s being run by the python interpreter. I’m not sure I can change that as it stands.
Once I figure out what signal is called when the you click the Indicator-Applet, I’ll be sure to implement what you suggested. =D
Once again, thanks for your comments.
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Ah I forgot to mention that I am working on setting up a GPG key for the repo.
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If you wanted to close gmail-notifier, you could do it via the commandline.
Maybe with something like this:
kill `ps -ef | grep gmail-notifier | grep -v grep | awk {‘print $2′}`
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Oh I see that makes sense it turns up as python. Thats plenty good.
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=D Cheers.
Also, I haven’t been able to figure out what signal (if any) gets called when the user clicks the indicator-applet.
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So I’m having a problem starting gmail-notifier when my computer starts. I have gone to system->preferences-> startup applications and added an entry with the command set as gmail-notifier.py (this is the command of the gmail-notifier menu launcher). For some reason though gmail-notifier never starts up with the computer. It does start up easily if I manually select the launch in applications->internet.
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Hah your Vancouver. Ive been on orcas Island far the past few days. Beautiful country in this neck of the woods.
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That’s good to hear. It’s been mostly raining here, except for today! It’s so bright outside…
Now about your issue…
gmail-notifier exits if it’s unable to download your gmail rss feed. This happens in one of the following cases:
1) You entered an invalid username/password.
2) You aren’t connected to the internet.
Are you using wifi? If so, then it’s most likely case #2. AFAIK, nm-applet doesn’t connect automatically. So, if gmail-notifier.py were started before nm-applet had a chance to connect, then it would exit.
I’ll add a longer initial timeout, and perhaps a descriptive error message when I get home.
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I think your right that gmail-notifier.py is trying to start before I am connected to the internet in which case a longer time out would be perfect.
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Update released.