Re: Extension Thunderbird Integration

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On vie, 2012-01-20 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Neulinger wrote:
> 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.

The "GNOME Shell notification system" is an implementation of (the
server side of) "plain" org.freedesktop.Notifications.


>  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 the

No. If used properly (as in: using libnotify/DBus rather than executing
notify-send in a shell) freedesktop notifications are grouped.


> 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.

You don't need an extension for that - it's what GNOME Shell does for
all freedesktop notifications.


>  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....

Using libnotify, you'd call Close for the notification you want to
remove from the Thunderbird extension.


>  It's just an advanced notification system.

Yes. And the usual way to make use of the system is via DBus/libnotify.
Using a custom Source is only needed in very specialized cases (like the
integrated chat notifications).


Florian