GNOME GTray

This is a small notification area app to check the status of your GMail account and display if you have any new email. It is inspired by Elias Torres' GTray program for windows.

This uses the GNOME libraries but it uses the freedesktop.org standard for tray apps, so it ought to work fine in KDE and other desktops.

It is written in Ruby and uses the Ruby GNOME2 bindings.

Installation

To install you need Gtk2 and Gconf2, and the bindings for these from the Ruby GNOME2 website. You also need the gtktrayicon library. Finally, it needs the Ruby HTTPS library (a compile time switch when building Ruby) to perform secure HTTP.

Under debian, you can install all of the required packages by typing as root:

  apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby libgconf2-ruby libgtk2-ruby libgtk-trayicon-ruby

Screenshots

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Older versions:

RPMs

Jorge García provided these handy RPMs for Fedora Core 2 that you can use to install GTray easily.

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Simon Howard