[Gajim-devel] Proper From line in Gmail notifications

[Yann Leboulanger]

beerfan wrote:
> Ugh, sorry Yann for the repost. The list uses the sender for the from
> instead of the list address. Resending to the list.
> 
> On 5/29/07, Yann Leboulanger <asterix at lagaule.org> wrote:
>> Doesn't that make a huge popup when you have many mails ?
> 
> You might look at Google Talk's mail notification (if you have access
> to a Windows system) for inspiration.
> 
> It works like this.
> 
> Notification popup appears (in the lower right corner) showing the
> following info;
> 
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Gmail icon     Sender (name or address)              |
> |                     Subject: Up to 2 lines                     |
> |   1 / 5            Body text up to 4 lines                   |
> |   <  >                    blah blah                               |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> The arrow buttons below the message number allow paging back or
> forward among the unread messages but otherwise the notification will
> automatically page through unread messages once at short intervals. If
> more messages come in later and there are still unread messages, only
> new messages are notified about but the x / x number shows the total
> number of unread messages.
> 
> I find Google Talks mail notifier to be the most informative and least
> intrusive that I've encountered. So much so, in fact, that I hacked
> the Gmail Notifier python program (somewhere on sf.net) to duplicate
> it exactly (so don't use Gajim's ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

We can't have < and > buttons. libnotify doesn't support such things.
but about your patch, is it usable ? I mean if you have many mails
what's the result ?

-- 
Yann