Looking for mailwatch app

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-08-30, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2008-08-29, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>>>  1) I can't tell which icon is for which mailbox.  I guess I
>>>     could create a set of my own mail icons that include the
>>>     mailbox names.
>>
>> Yep, that's what you'll want to do.
>
> I've almost got a shell script working that will automate the
> process: it scans through all of the "mailwatch*.rc" files and
> creates mail/nomail icons annotead with the mailbox names.
> Next I need to add a sed command to put the new icon-names
> back into the .rc files.

The shell script works nicely, but the result is pretty much a
failure.  Each icon contains the mailbox name and is 120 pixels
wide and 24 pixels tall.

There are two problems:

 1) Apparently a mailwatch "spot" in a panel has to be square?
    Somebody is adding a large amount empty space above and
    below each of the icons (regardless of whether the panel is
    horizontal or vertical).

 2) I can't figure out how to stop the .png icons from being
    scaled (they don't look as good scaled).  I made them a
    particular size because that's the size I wanted them. I
    suppose I could ditch ImageMagick as my icon generator and
    find some way to generate an SVG icon with a command in a
    shellscript.

The scaling thing is just an annoyance.  I can probably find a
panel size such that the icons are scaled 1:1.  The square
thing is sort of a showstopper.  It's just not usable if you
have to have a 120x120 button if you want label text that's 100
pixels wide and 18 pixels tall. :/

Back to the drawing board...

-- 
Grant