[rel] Gmail Notifier Plus for Windows 7

[juancis]

Feature suggest: Hide from ALT+TAB list.

Maybe there's some keyboard shortcut I'm not aware of... If not, maybe a new setting that allows to remove from the tasklist wouldn't hurt.

My 2 cents. :whistle:

J

[Hank-Ahn]

The program is great. It is exactly what I have been looking for.

I just have one issue. When I click on the "Go to your inbox" menu item I get the following error message:

"There was a problem sending the command to the program."

Thanks for your help on this.

-- Shawn

[juancis]

Hm. I think google is being a bit paranoid.

I get signed out of my iGoogle homepage around 2-3 times a day when the notifier is running.

Any way to prevent that?

Yup. Happens to me too.

[randomus_r]

Hey, new to this forum after finding this amazing little app - so incredibly useful! :)

Even so, the new mail badge is teeny tiny and impossible to read and I've seen you're looking for ideas so I've just whipped this together quickly in photoshop - what do you think?

And yes, that's 16x16 pixels

EDIT:Actually, that's quite dark - brightened it a bit. Even so, you get the idea :p

[phot0nic]

Maybe that's something that could be in version 3 someday :)

About the Flip3D thing, it's a known issue and unfortunately, I have no solution at the moment.

Oh well. This is a great little program regardless.

Hm. I think google is being a bit paranoid.

I get signed out of my iGoogle homepage around 2-3 times a day when the notifier is running.

Any way to prevent that?

I get this too. I thought that it was one of my Firefox extensions at first. Maybe we should notify Google? It seems like something they would have to fix on their end.

[TazeredWookiee]

Brilliant little app. Only one problem: I have my taskbar set to small icons so I can't see the little number bubble. Its quite awkward having to stop what im doing and mouse over the icon just to find out if I have emails.

I know you said earlier that you can't have the bubble when the taskbar is set to small icons, but what about having a monochrome envelope icon when there's no mail, and make it coloured when there is mail waiting in the inbox?

There must be a visual way of showing an email waiting.

[callummr]

Brilliant little app. Only one problem: I have my taskbar set to small icons so I can't see the little number bubble. Its quite awkward having to stop what im doing and mouse over the icon just to find out if I have emails.

I know you said earlier that you can't have the bubble when the taskbar is set to small icons, but what about having a monochrome envelope icon when there's no mail, and make it coloured when there is mail waiting in the inbox?

There must be a visual way of showing an email waiting.

I'm pretty sure they can't change the icon.

All I can think (and it would definitely need to be optional as it would look horrible to most people I expect) is to use the icon progress bar, say leaving it off if there's no email, and full green (100%) when there's new mail, perhaps red if there's an error.

[Mystique79]

Hi to all

I have just downloaded v2.0.3 but with my windows 7 x64 in italian don't work(all version 2.x don't work on my pc). I am using the version 1.2

Anyone know the problem?

[Sturmeh]

The notification bubble only shows if you are using the default "large" taskbar, it is missing if you use small icons mode. ( Which I did. )

Also even in the large icons mode, the notification is WAY TOO TINY!

Is it possible that we can have some sort of flashing when a mail arrives? Sort of like when you get a message on MSN and such?

[callummr]

The notification bubble only shows if you are using the default "large" taskbar, it is missing if you use small icons mode. ( Which I did. )

Also even in the large icons mode, the notification is WAY TOO TINY!

Is it possible that we can have some sort of flashing when a mail arrives? Sort of like when you get a message on MSN and such?

Your first two points have been discussed... thoroughly in the thread :p

The third would be nice. I kinda overcomplicated it with my suggestion of filling it with a progress bar >.<

[Savage Alien]

Throwing in my 2 cents concerning the mail count overlay.... A pixel font would be easy to read.. the #1 in example font I used, silkscreen, may be confused with a 2..

Oh, and flashing notification and small icons overlay would be nice [if small icons support overlay].

[callummr]

Oh, and flashing notification and small icons overlay would be nice [if small icons support overlay].

I don't think anything's changed since the last multitude of posts to make it quite clear it doesn't.

[Savage Alien]

Yah I did throw that in there even after reading your post and I did assume it wasn't since it's not in already... I can tell you're a tad annoyed with the topic. Do accept my apology? :blush:

[callummr]

Yah I did throw that in there even after reading your post and I did assume it wasn't since it's not in already... I can tell you're a tad annoyed with the topic. Do accept my apology? :blush:

Lol, sorry. I'm a bit cranky recently. No sleep 2 nights in a row does these things :p But yeah, don't worry about it :)

[Demitri]

its a wonderful app but i can read the little overlay for the amount of mail because its just so tiny... hopefully you find a way to make it abit bigger.. but everything else is clean and a job well done.

[Blindlabel013]

I completely agree with everyone else. It's quite an awesome little application, but as everyone has mentioned it's next to impossible for me to see the actual number of new emails. It would also be nice (at least for me) if I could double click the icon to go to my inbox.

[TazeredWookiee]

Sorry to whoever it was that said its not possible to switch icons, but yes it is.

See attachment. The digsby chat window icon changes if they're typing a message to you, and reverts to their buddy icon when they arent.

There we have it, use a MONOCHROME icon for when theres no mail (in small icons mode) and switch it to full colour when there's mail waiting.

[nemo]

great idea, Wookie. I love it.

[Demitri]

thats basically the only thing keeping me from using it.. the ability to see that little number.

[TazeredWookiee]

Here's a little proof of concept:

EDIT: You could also call some of the code that throbs the taskbar icon rectangles to signify the window's status has changed. Changed the mockup to demonstrate this.

Edited September 10, 2009 by TazeredWookiee

[Demitri]

nice mockup..

[kevinnn]

for those who want a system tray notifier use the gmail notifier (Here let me Google that for you) and stop posting here how much you would like this program to be in the system tray, that's not what it does.

if you can't understand that simple concept please don't post. I, and probably daty2k1 and other users, are sick of hearing you wine about how this takes up space in your task bar.

daty2k1, keep up the good work lovin 2.0.3. can't wait for 3.0

Hi, this is my first post here but maybe it's usefull for those "who want a system tray notifier" mentioned above :)

I wrote Spiffy, a notifier that runs in the system tray (it doesn't take any space on your taskbar :p) it's in early stage but doing the job. It's listed on Freewarefiles, Softpedia and some other sites if you wan't to look it up before trying.

[0graham0]

The next button and open mail button in the preview do not appear to be function for me. Any one else have this problem? Other than that this app is very useful; thanks for your work!

[daty2k1]

Sorry to whoever it was that said its not possible to switch icons, but yes it is.

See attachment. The digsby chat window icon changes if they're typing a message to you, and reverts to their buddy icon when they arent.

There we have it, use a MONOCHROME icon for when theres no mail (in small icons mode) and switch it to full colour when there's mail waiting.

Well I guess it is possible but it doesn't seem to be working in .NET when the application is pinned :(

Also, to everyone complaining about the size of the overlay, don't worry it's changing in the next version. Hopefully it'll be out tonight.

[daty2k1]

2.1 is out :)