Sweet! GNOME GMail tray utility! -> Gtray

kaput · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 197

Just saw this over at gnomedesktop.org. Apprently its a tool to keep track of the status of your Gmail inbox! I was hoping somebody would do this. Now we just need to serve up ebuilds!

shm · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject:

For us KDE users, there is also a KDE equivalent
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Lowspirit · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject:

Being an avid GMail fan I find this most excellent, looking forward to see it mature in future versions.
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cron0 · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

I tried it, it didn't work really well...

First of all I couldn't find the HTTPS Ruby bindings (ruby-libopenssl?)

Then when I run it, it always says I have 7000 new messages...

Any clues?

Lowspirit · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

I'm having similar issues, I've surely screwed something up because after talking to the dev this is NOT how it is supposed to work =)

v1.1 is out now with notification, icon turns into a red envelope type looking thing when new unread messages are in your inbox, and he is looking into more type of notifications (like presenting number of new msgs in trayicon etc).
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jrz · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject:

any ebuilds yet?
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pagal · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 59

can anyone make an ebuild of it?
thanks.

Lowspirit · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject:

Until this project matures may I suggest a neat gdesklet :
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/categories.php?func=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=171

Peek at my screenshot link in my signature to see it in action.
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oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

There's an ebuild over at http://www.breakmygentoo.net/.

kaput · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 197

_danno · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Michigan, USA

I downloaded the ebuilds from breakmygentoo and just put them in the overlay, but after emerging gtray doesn't appear in any menus to add to the panel... does anybody know where it needs to be for that?

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

_danno · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Michigan, USA

thanks oberyno, that was simple enough!

allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

Are there any other apps besides Gtray and the desklet for checking gmail? I don't really like either one all too much.

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

I think kde has a gtray equivalent app. Just curious though, what exactly do you want the mail checker to do?

Play a sound? If you're using gtray you can modify TrayIcon.rb in /usr/lib/gtray to look something like this:

allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

no. sounds are bad.

I just was scared off by all the ruby dependencies. it seems like such a simple app...can't really justify installing all the dependencies for one little mail checker that only checks gmail accounts.

[edit] ok i gave in and installed it for now.

I did a 'emerge -p gtray > gtray.deps' before hand so if I uninstall it in the future I can remove all those ruby deps.

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

Yeah, it is a simple app. When I get better at python I might rewrite it. But don't hold your breath, I'm bad at coding and will probably take a long time if I ever start, let alone finnish.
Edit: And I've just started learning python. But I will look at it. I wasn't happy with all the dependencies either.

DraGoNsLaYeR · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

I get this
bash-2.05b$ python KNewGmail.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "KNewGmail.py", line 18, in ?
from kdecore import KApplication, KIconLoader, KIcon, KConfigSkeleton
ImportError: No module named kdecore

I am running KDE but I don't know where I should I put the files.

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

Do you have pykde? I'm not a kde person, but I would think that's where kdecore would be.

thedumbkid · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 72

hey ppl, sorry I want to bring up this thread again

I didn't know there's gtray until 2 days ago
I quickly got something working w/ gtk and curl last night...
I didn't like all that ruby dependency...
I already have curl for electronicsheep so I don't mind that

download here if you want to check it out, and if you don't mind point out any mistakes I make:
http://s92717864.onlinehome.us/gmailtray.tar.gz
like I said, you need USE="ssl" emerge curl

note that it's very barebone right now, I have exams in a week so one night is as much as I can spend on this for the time being

read README file
edit gmailtray.c to include your username and password...
and edit stuff in main() if you want to change the time interval...

pazz · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 283

i just read about and tried a similar tool for the gnome desktop which is mor hid compliant and looks even better to me.
it supports multiple accunts in one applet such as gmail pop3 (no ssl auth at the momet) and local mail dirs

give it a trie:
screens@http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/#screenshots
home@http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
noticed@http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1892&mode=thread&order=0&thold=1

pazz

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

what we really need is a gkrellm plugin for gmail support

gtray emerged from breakmygentoo 1.1-r1 both with and without ssl enabled with USE decides my username and password are wrong :-\ weird. going to try and find an ebuild or something for that one posted above

the gdesklets sucked and only updated once then froze.... :-\

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

ah, i'll wait for the update