Re: Libnotify support

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/17/05 07:15:16, Johan Brannlund wrote:
> [snip]
> Hopefully I can fix that - among other things I'd have to learn
> something about the autotools, since I suppose a proper configure
> check should be implemented. I also have a question:
>
> I'd like to display the Subject and From headers in the notification.
> Do you have a suggestion for the easiest way of getting those? From a
> cursory look, it seems like I'd have to search the msg_tree in
> check_new_messages_count(). Or would it be more easily done in
> update_mailbox_idle() ?

check_new_messages_count() might be a better place since it already  
figures out whether there are new messages. You should be aware of a  
difference between cases when balsa knows that there *may* be new  
messages (discovered by a quick check on closed mailboxes) and knows  
precisely the number of new messages arriving to open mailboxes. There  
may be also several messages arriving at once, and not all of them may  
be unseen (check_new_messages_count() will be called when messages are  
copied by the user, that's why there is notify parameter). Regarding  
getting Subject and from, using libbalsa_mailbox_get_message() is  
probably simplest.

Did you think of providing "system tray" support as well? It is  
probably slighly less intrusive than libnotify and has no external  
dependencies. gaim contains an example code in eggtrayicon.c

Pawel