Mailcheck

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Pasi Orovuo 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.
> 

Hi Pasi,

great to see someone interested in working on this and very needed as 
well. Maybe you could talk to Brian about working with him on the new 
mailwatch -- force him to show you the code he supposedly has written ;-)

	Jasper