evonotify 0.2.4 review

evonotify is a little gtk-perl script to add panel-mail-notification to evolution using a filter evonotify requires the perl modules

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 18K Developer: Oliver Grawert

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evonotify is a little gtk-perl script to add panel-mail-notification to evolution using a filter evonotify requires the perl modules "Gnome2", "Gnome2::Wnck" and "Gtk2::TrayIcon" to run.

In debian and ubuntu these are provided by libgnome2-perl, libgnome2-wnck-perl and libgtk2-trayicon-perl.

If new mail arrives evonotify is run by a evolution filter (see screenshot at bottom). evonotify then shows a little flashing letter in the notification area. Clicking the icon brings up evolution (either starts it or uniconifys the running evo window) and closes itself. Right clicking opens a context menu which offers configuration.

Sound and Tooltip text are customizable by a config interface.

To install evonotify download and unpack the tgz file, cd to the evonotify dir and run ./setup. The setup script will copy the files to the appropriate places and set up the evolution filter for you.

This will execute evonotify everytime new mail arrives. To avoid confusion the internal notification of evolution should be disabled (using the mail preferences).

Requirements:
gnome2-wnck
gtk2-perl
gnome2-perl
gtk2-trayicon-perl

What's New in This Release:
minor bugfix
patch from Ziga Mahkovec to enable unminimize on a different workspace than the current one