Mailcheck

[Pasi Orovuo]

It is a completely normal application, so it's started from the command
line (for example). Currently it can only be disabled by right-clicking
the icon and choosing "exit" (left click spawns mail reader). A command
line option for this will probably be appropriate in the future.

-Pasi


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:42:31PM -0400, Erik Harrison wrote:
> How do you disable/enable the daemon which creates the systray icon?
> 
> On Apr 6, 2005 11:41 AM, Pasi Orovuo <pasi.ov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everyone.
> > 
> > Jasper mentioned some new ideas about Mailcheck in Bugzilla a while back
> > (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857). By that time I had
> > written a multiple account patch for the current plugin, which I then
> > decided not to release. Jasper's idea about implementing mailcheck as an
> > system tray icon was quite interesting, and I felt it would make a nice
> > project for myself to get familiar with Xfce and Gtk programming. So I
> > decided to give it a try, and here's what I've so far:
> > 
> > http://medusa.tutka.fi/~pasi/mw1.png
> > And with no unread mail:
> > http://medusa.tutka.fi/~pasi/mw2.png
> > 
> > In the lower right corner the left icon is the current mailcheck and the
> > right one in system tray is 'my' Mailcheck (entitled as Mailwatch as I
> > didn't want anyone to mix it with the official Xfce Mailcheck - name
> > suggestions are welcome). Currently it's not much more than a stripped
> > down (missing pop support) rip-off of Mailcheck plugin with support for
> > multiple accounts, accompanied with an mcs-plugin for settings.
> > 
> > At the moment I don't dare to release the source code, as I need to read
> > a bit more about Gtk/GLib and fix some (possible) errors, but I'm hoping to
> > get someting released during the weekend.
> > 
> > If any of you have ideas or suggestions, I'd like to hear them.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Pasi
> > 
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