[ubuntu-uk] Including thundebird into the gnome desktop notification

[Markie]

Perfect! Thanks Alan!

Markie

On 30 April 2010 16:52, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/04/10 16:46, Markie wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I installed Lucid onto a spare old external HDD last night and its doing
> > great so far. I wondered if Thunderbird might have been included into
> > the desktop notification but alas it hasnt. Its no big deal but the way
> > pidgin has been integrated it would be nice to see TB. Especially seeing
> > as Thunderbird 3 seems to come with the default install now which is a
> > marked improvement on its predecessor.
> >
> > Does anyone know if theres plans or a way to include it into the
> > notification area?
>
> Hi Markie,
>
> yes, there is some code that was introduced into the forthcoming 3.1
> release that adds support for the various notification mechanisms: Growl
> (MacOS) and Libnotify (Linux) and whatever the windows equivalent is.
>
> However, a recent comment on bugzilla indicates that it might have been
> pulled due to a blocking bug for the time being:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478463
>
> There is however a Thunderbird extension that adds the Indicator Applet
> and libnotify support which you could use for the time-being:
>
> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/09/indicator-applet-libnotify-support-for-thunderbird/
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
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