Re: [Evolution] YAFR -- Yet Another Feature Request

[Erik Bågfors <bagfors pdc kth se>]

On 20 Dec 2000 09:36:11 +0200, Markus Lang wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2000 19:49:28 +0100, Konrad Neuwirth wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >    my first submission to this list, and it's already a feature
> > request :-)  Although what I'm describing here is also ripped from a
> > Microsoft Windows MUA, it's not Outlook but The Bat! by Ritelabs
> > (http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/).   Bat has something called the
> > "Mail Ticker[tm]" that's basically a frameless window that, just like
> > a stock ticker, has values for new mail running through---more often
> > than not a two line display containing From and Subject for the mails,
> > colored according to priority; and if you want, you can have a third
> > line indicating which of your accounts and folders the mail has
> > arrived in.  What I also happen to like about the Ticker is that it
> > runs atop of screen savers as well, meaning that as soon as mail comes
> > in, the bar runs across the screen and you immediately are notified of
> > new mail without any sounds :-)
>
> There is a need for this, but there are dozens of mailcheck programs out
> there already - why not use them? I use gKrellM for system monitoring &
> it has a good mailcheck function.
>
> There are two mailcheck applets in GNOME applets (panel -> add to panel
> -> applet -> network).



But none of these programs have kerberos support (AFAIK), but evolution
does.  If you move this into evolution it will automatically support
everything that evolution does.

BTW, great work on getting kerberos into evolution, guys!

/Erik

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