Introduction

GoogleMail Sentinel (gmail-sentinel) is a notification app for gmail. It started as a personal itch. There are many other similar apps, but I didn't like any of those. gmail-notify was the closest to good I could find but it has some drawbacks.

1. It didn't work on x86_64 (amd64) by default.
2. It uses a binary object that creates the status icon (and because it was compiled under x86 it didn't worked on amd64)
3. Notifications didn't use libnotify (more on this latter)
4. Translations were made using xml

My main goal was, beside learning, to create an app that:

1. Uses gtk.StatusIcon for the icon in the task bar
2. Uses libnotify to display the notifications
3. Use gettext for translations
4. Reduce the code size (and hopefully the memory footprint)

GoogleMail Sentinel

gmail-sentinel is what I came up with. It does everything that I want (even uses less memory than gmail-notify). gmail-sentinel is originally a fork of gmail-notify but at this time there isn't much code left of gmail-notify.

gmail-sentinel doesn't do everything gmail-notify can, specifically:

1. It hasn't been tested on Mac or Windows
2. It doesn't have a configuration GUI (this is done by design)
3. Pop up notifications don't have a link to open your browser to read your message

Current Status

Current status is under development, is not intended for general usage yet.

Disclaimer

GoogleMail, Gmail and Google are trademarks of Google, Inc. This is project has no relationship with Google, Inc beside using it's code hosting service.