psilandia

wmgmail version 0.6.3

New version, minor feature enhancements:

• In quick mail preview, messages that are already shown once before (but not marked read since) are now drawn with lighter color font. This may be an annoyance as it doesn't follow theme but an absolute color. If it nags you, ping me and I'll make something more acceptable.
• Tightened up requirements on pygtk version (will not try to start with earlier than 2.0)

As usual, download wmgmail-0.6.3 here.

Download wmgmail

Source distribution:

• wmgmail-0.6.3.tar.gz.
• wmgmail-0.6.2.tar.gz.
• wmgmail-0.6.1.tar.gz.
• wmgmail-0.6.0.tar.gz.
• wmgmail-0.5.0.tar.gz.

Debian users are welcome to use the repository I've set up at http://psavo.iki.fi/debian. You can also download single .deb package if you wish so.

Debian/unstable python-libgmail 0.0.8+cvs20041108-1 will break wmgmail

So don't blindly upgrade.

There was a patch that's needed by wmgmail (it saves some info from searches for quick retrieval), and it was taken in Debian/experimental version of python-libgmail (0.0.8-3). Now it was dropped (unknowingly, I think).

If you upgraded and need wmgmail back, apply this libgmail-threadinfo.diff patch. Restart wmgmail after applying it.

Update 12-Nov: New package (0.0.8+cvs20041108-2) fixed that, thanks to package maintainers. (removed note about other breakage, my own fault)

wmgmail screenshots

Quick mail preview timeout in action. Configuration dialog, Interface tab.

Quick mail preview without timeout or launched via '>' -button.

Mail and no mail indicator.

Dark mode for darker-toned themes.

wmgmail version 0.6.2

New version, minor feature enhancements, bugfixes:

• As per request, added darker main UI to better suit dark themes. Use -d/--dark commandline option to toggle it on.
• Added commandline option to use alternative configfile (-r/--rcfile).
• Fixed a typo and don't print minor debugging stuff.

As usual, download wmgmail-0.6.2 here.

wmgmail version 0.6.1

New version, minor feature enhancements, bugfixes:

• Quick Mail Preview now can have a geometry string. This is in standard X Window System format and is WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFFSET+YOFFSET. WxH can be omitted, as +XOFFSET+YOFFSET. XOFFSET and YOFFSET can be negative (they're then -?OFFSET), and counted from opposite side of screen. So for example to pop up window at lower-left corner, use following "+64-64". This is set via preferences.
• Enhanced Quick Mail Preview to show categories in green and starred messages with 'blue star' (asterisk :).
• Bugfixed GTK+ UI no to leave processes running when closing them via window manager (eg. not close/ok -buttons)
• Fixed no mail message to be more informative

As usual, download wmgmail-0.6.1 here.

wmgmail, Yet another Gmail notifier.

This is a DockApp, intended for use with WindowMaker or fluxbox -window managers. It has a graphical configuration interface using GTK+.

Functionality includes:

• Checking for new mail in Gmail (strictly speaking it's using "is:unread" -query)
• Variable checking time (from 2min to several hours)
• GUI for settings
• Mail contents preview (shows same snippets that Gmail inbox does)
• Mail contents preview can be setup to popup on new mail
• This popup can be automatically closed after configurable time.
• A program can be executed upon new mail arrival

Dependencies

wmgmail has four dependencies. For absolute minimum utility you'll need python, pywmgeneral and libgmail. If you want graphical configuration and mail preview, you will also need reasonably recent (for GTK version 2) pygtk.

• python: Most distributions have it.
• pywmgeneral.
• libgmail.
• pygtk (Most distros have reasonably new).

Installation

Non-debian:

1. tar xvfz wmgmail-<version>.tar.gz
2. cd wmgmail-<version>
3. python setup.py install
4. Done. After this you should be able to start wmgmail by typing wmgmail.

Technoblabber

wmgmail is written in python and uses libgmail for interfacing gmail, pygtk for dialog interfaces and pywmgeneral for dockapp business. Great thanks to all respective authors.

wmgmail version 0.6.0

New version, major feature enhancements, including:

• Can now popup quick mail preview on new mail. This popup can be autoclosed with a configurable timeout.
• Can execute a program on new mail.
• Window redrawing now happens only when needed.
• Mail can be checked on demand.
• User interface updated for changes.
• Python garbage collection is now periodically invoked.

As usual, download wmgmail-0.6.0 here.