Re: Extension Thunderbird Integration
- From: Paul Neulinger <privacy tanwald net>
- Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Extension Thunderbird Integration
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:25:30 +0100
On 01/20/2012 03:07 PM, Florian Müllner wrote:
On vie, 2012-01-20 at 14:15 +0100, Paul Neulinger wrote:
This extension uses the GNOME Shell notifications system to inform the
user about new mail. It consists of two extensions. A Thunderbird
extension which sends DBus-signals and the GNOME Shell part which
connects to those signals.
I don't understand why you don't use the org.freedesktop.Notification
API on the Thunderbird side, which would not require any Shell
extensions at all.
Florian
The GNOME Shell notification system has several advantages compared to
plain org.freedesktop.Notifications and I guess that was the reason why
it was introduced. If you get 30 new mails your MessageTray would be
crowded with single notification icons and you would have to click all
of them to remove them (or you write a script that does it for you -
there is a Thunderbird extension that sends plain notifications and it
annoyed me). The GNOME Shell NotificationSource collects all
notifications of Thunderbird, you can browse them in the summary and it
also shows how many you have got. As soon as the new mail is read or
deleted I can also easily and automatically delete it from the
notification source and so on.... It's just an advanced notification
system.
Paul
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