Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Andrew SB wrote: One issue I've had with the MI applet is that in its current state it misses one of the largest messaging use cases, webmail. I know there's a gmail-notifier around, does it talk MI? If not, who's up for helping it do that in Lucid? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
It does, although it needs some love. https://launchpad.net/gm-notify -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
I'm not, I'm just learning debian packaging, but Ken Vandine has been involved with gmail-notify, so he may be able to lend a hand getting it into universe/main. Could someone on the Ayatana team give it some review for what needs done to make it really beautiful? -- Alex

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Juha Siltala
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 01:04 +0530, Praveen Thirukonda wrote: the best way to handle web mail in the long term would be to use the telepathy framework. it still needs some work on it's email parts though. maybe via empathy like pidgin does. or separately I would love to see this done in

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Juha Siltala j...@siltala.net wrote: I am no telepathy expert, but AFAIK the telepathy tubes that they recently built afford pretty much anything we can thing of. Abiword has a telepathy tube for collaborating on documents (at least the Sugar version on the

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Praveen Thirukonda
There is a branch in telepathy where email support is somewhat worked on though it's kinda abandoned atm. Yes telepathy is meant for real time communication and hence in real time u will get notifications for your emails. ie the capabilities will be limited. this is NOT a replacement for your

[Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-09-07 Thread Alex Lourie
Hi All Following last threads on this ML, I see that the discussion became very technical and it got to the level of discussing the possible ways of implementing things. Thinking about having the MI in the upper menu there, warms my soul and helps me dream about having lots of icons aggregated to