Hey, it's good to find gmail notifr. I like it. A comment of this soft would be adding a function called "mark as read", just like Checkgmail (http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/) in Linux platform. It is a very good function I think.
Cheers~~
James Chen
· 5 months ago
Kem, Gmail Notifr is merely a notifier, CheckGmail looks very promising, I'll have a look at what it does and see if we could add some features it has. Thanks.
Sam
· 8 months ago
I love gmail notifr. Would it be hard to implement a "Mark all as read" option?
Great app.
Thanks.
sam
Rudro
· 11 months ago
A few things to make this app truly unique and popular: 1. Enable user to mark as read, delete or archive directly from the app, in this order of importance (take a look at the linux program checkgmail, which I truly miss on the mac). It might be a good idea to do this preliminarily from growl, if possible. Doing this from a setup like mail.appetizer would also be great, but it might be difficult. 2. Allow different sounds, growl prefs, check interval prefs, number of unread displays and browsers to open inboxes in for different accounts (and even labels for some of these features, avoiding duplicate notifications by stating which hierarchy to follow while reporting unread mail). I feel that if these are implemented, you would have a large market to sell this app to.
Alessandro
· 1 year ago
Thanks for this program, i hope you improve the compatibility with growl, beacuse when a mail is recived nothing appened (sound or growl notify)
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Alessandro:
Growl notification is on my priority list and will be included in the next version.
Mutz
· 1 year ago
crashes on 10.5.5
30/10/08 14:51:50 Gmail Notifr[3146] ApplicationController#awakeFromNib: OSX::OCException: NSInvalidArgumentException - *** +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:]: second object of each pair must be non-nil. Or, did you forget to nil-terminate your parameter list? 30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /System/Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send' 30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /System/Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing' 30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /Users/prepress/Desktop/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:55:in `setupDefaults'
--- truncated by ashchan
Giovanni
· 1 year ago
This is so great, I hate Google Updater. For me this is working on my mbp + 10.5.5...hope it will continue to work..
@ Mutz: Thanks for the detail trace. I will look into this issue. BTW, is your Leopard Intel based or PPC?
@ a: I actually am not sure if Gmail Notifr runs on PPC, but I'll try to have a look at what happened.
Update: I've pushed a bugfix version (0.2.1). Could you download this version and see if it still crashes? Really sorry about that.
a
· 1 year ago
what a fast answer ! Ok, now it works, even if i'm on a PPC. There's one thing that bothers me, when i want to go to my inbox it doesnt log me in on gmail, i have to fill my account name and password, i dont have to do it with google notifier. Also, do you think it's possible not to have the number of mails next to the icon (i like to be discreet) ? thanks for the great work !
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@a: I'm glad that the v0.2.1's bugfix solved your crash problem. As for the login thing, AFAI gmail remembers your login info via the browser. Gmail Notifr stores your account info in keychain and doesn't pass that info to the browser. That's being said, when you click Open Inbox, Gmail Notifr simply opens the gmail's url.
Many people want the number of mails to be showed. Perhaps there should be a preference item for the user the decide if it should be showed:-). For now I don't plan to make the preferences window too complicated. (so there's even no options to let the user enable/disable growl/sound notification)
Mutz
· 1 year ago
0.2.1 fixed my error ;) thx
a
· 1 year ago
Ok for the preferences thing i'll be waiting ! what's strange about the login is that with google"s official notifier it works, it opens safari and my gmail without having to type my name and password.
MircoT
· 1 year ago
Hi, I'm sorry for my bad english... for every Gmail Notifr (0.2.2) scheduled check on my gmail account I see this message in system.log:
Nov 3 10:35:35 JENAPRO [0x0-0x64064].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[1016]: warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session
Is possible to eliminate this message?
tks. ciao.
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT:
I'm not a native English speaker either:-)
Gmail Notifr uses SSL to connect to the gmail feed and check the messages count. It's written in RubyCocoa and depends on Ruby's standard HTTP library, which outputs that warning every time it connects to the server. I'll check if this warning could be got rid of. If so, I'll make the change in the next version.
gw
· 1 year ago
i have download the latest version of gmail notify, and it works well with my MacBook running 10.5.5 OS...
THX for u work,
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan thank you! BTW Gmail Notifr (0.2.2) seems to work fine :-)
Ciao!
Batdan
· 1 year ago
Great! Was looking for this type application since I changed my machine and OS.
Thanks for your efforts on this.
Batdan
· 1 year ago
Thanks again for this notifier. Just one thing. How do I change or mute the notifier sound alert?
It took me a while to figure out why I kept hearing the Blow sound every so often, which turned out to be every 3 minutes that I had set the notifier to check gmail.
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Batdan,
Unfortunately the sound is not configurable in current version as the growl and sound were recently added to this version. In the next version I'll make both of them be able to enabled/disabled in the preferences.
Updated: this feature has been added in v0.2.4
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan, thank you for the new 0.2.4 relase... system.log message free... :-)
Seems to work fine.
Suggestion: when I click the growl notification or if I select Open Inbox, the counter is not set up to zero... The counter is set to zero on the next scheduled check. Maybe an option on preferences panel would be nice... ;-))
tks! ciao!
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT:
Setting counter to zero on Open Inbox will behavior strange:
* what if the networking is down, so the user doesn't get to the inbox successfully? * what if the user does get into his/her inbox, but decides not to read any new messages?
So basically it's a feature that will require complicated application logic. One of my friends actually suggested weeks ago that Gmail Notifr do a check again soon after the clicking. I guess we are all so used to instant checking that we couldn't bear the non-zero number on the menubar :-)
Rick Armitage
· 1 year ago
Is there a way to check 2 accounts at the same time. If not this would be a great feature.
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Rick: Gmail Notifr doesn't provide multiple accounts support.
PeterApokotos
· 1 year ago
Any chance of multiple accounts?
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Peter:
Not in near plan. I still feel it's hard to make the multiple accounts logic clear, eg: how would you like the Open Inbox action to behavior? Now it just open your default browser and visit the gmail page (without passing any of your account information)
Update: still doing some research on this, planning to add this big feature now.
required
· 1 year ago
wouldn't it be nice a version without numbers? icon with colours when there are messages and no colours for no messages? Ty4ur attention!!
Luis
· 1 year ago
Sorry, but it doesn't work! I have downloaded it, unzipped it and if I click on the icon, nothing happens :( I am on a MacBook 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo... Hope to hear form you, as I am interested in this app...
emmaemme
· 1 year ago
Hi, seems to work ok on MacBook 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. Would like to see the sender and header when clicking on the icon (maybe the growl notification gives this information but I hate growl).
It's great to be able to set the interval for checking!
Thanx
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@ Luis:
Have you set up your account in the Preferences correctly?
Luis
· 1 year ago
Where do I find the preferences? Again, if I double click the app, nothing happens...
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Luis:
It's a menubar app which means when you start it, it residents on the right menubar (next to Volume Controller, Networking Icon, Battery Info etc). Hope this helps.
Have a look at the [screenshot] then you'll get the idea.
Luis
· 1 year ago
Ashcan, sorry, it seems I didn't explain myself properly: i know what your app is and does look like. The thing is, if I open it, there's nothing in my menu bar. At all. Nobody else had this problem before, I presume?
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Luis:
Wow sorry, it seems Gmail Notifr crashes on launch if you could not see it running in menu bar. Could you attach the crash log here? You could find it by opening Console.app and locate the log at LOG FILES - ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Gmail Notifr_2008-....crash.
Sorry again for its not working for you.
Marcello
· 1 year ago
Hi Ash, greetings from Italy! Same Luis problem, but stranger in my opinion... I've installed Notifr in a MacBook Intel (Leopard), and for 10 days all was perfectly running; same day, same procedure on my iMac G5 (Leopard), no life signs. So my idea was that probably the powerpc was not supported... But after an upgrade (0.22 > 0.24), the MacBook has the same problem! Launch Notifr, i can see the icon in the menu bar for just a quarter of second, then the app close. No crash log file found... I hope you'll find the problem because your app is very useful! :) Thank you
Hope you understand this :) BTW, I see you're from Hangzhou. How funny, I have visited your town. Lovely place!
Luis
· 1 year ago
@ Marcello I did see the app aswell for a quarter of a second, indeed!
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Luis & @Marcello:
Thanks for the information and sorry for the bad behavior of my software :-) There seems to be a very stupid mistake in the code. Please download this and see if it works: http://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.fix.zip . If it fixes the problem I'm going to release a new version.
@Luis: That's cool. You're welcome to visit Hangzhou again. Next time you come please let me know in advance then I could buy you coffee.
Marcello
· 1 year ago
Hi Ash, here i'm. It seems to me that the fixed version works fine, but there's another little mistake... Now, if you open the preferences panel and choose the option "Launch at login" when you click "Save" the app close by themselves. If you relaunch the app and open the preferences panel the option "Launch at login" appear as not selected.
Ok, as usual, thank you for your app and for the big support, i simply hope to be useful for the app's developing. Bye! :)
Luis
· 1 year ago
Aschan, it works now!! Thanks so much!! I will be the one buying you the coffee :) Sorry I can't write thanks in Chinese...
Marcello
· 1 year ago
Luis, have you tried to select the option "Launch at startup" and saving? In my MacBook the app close by themselves! And the fixed version is not compatible with PPC machines :( Bye
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Luis:
I'm really glad it works for you now.
@Marcello:
Could you please attache the crash log?
Marcello
· 1 year ago
Hi Ash. As i wrote in my november 12 post i can't find a specific crash log file for Notifr in the Console (at least with the "Gmail Notifr_2008" prefix). Now i've launched the app another time and i'll paste the console result message. TY, bye!
Well done Ash!!! It works perfectly. I'll download the UB version to install it on my iMac too. Thank you so much, great work!
Bye
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Marcello:
Cool! I'm going to release a new version.
MircoT
· 1 year ago
Hi, yesterday I've installed gmail notfr 0.2.6. Seems to work fine, but today, for apparently no reason, I see this on system.log:
Nov 15 15:30:02 JENAPRO [0x0-0x78078].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[2545]: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error) Nov 15 15:30:02 JENAPRO [0x0-0x78078].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[2545]: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout' ...
Gmail Notfr seems to be stuck at the check of my gmail account, but was not crashed. I've restarted the application.
Any idea?
tks. regards.
ciao.
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT: Connection to the gmail feed happened to timeout (which means it didn't get the response within a certain time) so this error came. Basically this is not a problem (but I should have done more checking in the code).
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan: thank you for your reply Another information: when errors come on system.log, the icon of gmail notifr was the red M without any number... strange... when the connection to gmail servers is impossible the icon should be different. Anyway I wait for the next release. Good work! ;-)
Ciao.
Pedro Luis
· 1 year ago
Hi! I've been trying your Gmail Notifr and i like it so much. I like the icons and the of check every N minutes. I just want to suggest that it would be great an option that allows you to don't receive a notification when you have received it. I explain: sometimes you receive an email but you don't want to read it now. It's a bit disturbing if growl shows a notification every 5 minutes (for example) with the same notification of 5 minutes ago.
I like your notifier very much, regards!
Marcello
· 1 year ago
Hi Ash. There's another little mistake... I usually receive the gmail messages with push service on my BlackBerry 8310. Since i have installed the Notifr the service appears to be inactive; the strange thing is that if i turn off the Notifr all works newly great. Do you have some idea? Thank you, :)
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT: Gmail Notifr still has a long way to go, thanks ^-^
@Pedro Luis: In fact you could turn either growl notification or sound off in the Preferences window :-)
@Marcello: I don't have a BlackBerry (I own a jailbroken iPhone), but I couldn't imagine Gmail Notifr would cause the push service stopping working, as it just fetches the messages count from the gmail feed in a read-only manner. I'll do a googling and try to find out what happens though.
MircoT
· 1 year ago
Hi Ash, today Gmail Notifr crashed... I clicked "Open Inbox" and sbam!
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO Gmail Notifr[128]: Growl::Notifier#onClicked: NoMethodError: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked' Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22 Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked': undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: from /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: from /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22 Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO com.apple.launchd[105] ([0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]): Exited with exit code: 1
Seems to be related to growl... BTW growl still run fine... Good work for the debugging :-)
ciao!
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT: this was really strange. Did it happen more than once? Could you reproduce the crash again?
glimpse
· 1 year ago
Same error here (as MircoT said Growl kept running as if nothing happened):
Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse Gmail Notifr[153]: Growl::Notifier#onClicked: NoMethodError: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse [0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]: /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked' ... Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse [0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]: from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22 Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse com.apple.launchd[95] ([0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]): Exited with exit code: 1
glimpse
· 1 year ago
From what I can understand from that error log (although I'm not a programmer or anything close to that :D), this happens when one clicks on the Growl notification dialog: "Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse Gmail Notifr[153]: Growl::Notifier#onClicked: NoMethodError: undefined method `call’ for nil:NilClass"
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan
No, I've tried many times, but I'm unable to reproduce this error. The only difference "from the normal" is that Firefox (3.0.4) was closed when I've clicked Open Inbox... but, I repeat, I'm unable to reproduce this error... I've deleted gmail notifr entry from the growl application list and relaunched gmail notifr, so the growl entry has been recreated. I don't know if this help... Waiting for the next error... :-D
Good work for the debugging ;-)
Ciao! :)
debaser
· 1 year ago
nice work!
suggestion: i´ve set the app to check mail every 2 min. if an email is inbox, it shows the growl notification. if i don´t read the email, 2 min. later the notification for the same email shows again. my suggestion is: "notifies memory". 1 mail -> 1 notify once.
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT & @glimpse: sorry for this issue. I'm still trying to reproduce it on my machine (MBP Intel, 10.5.5).
@debaser: good suggestion. I've been thinking about added multiple accounts support. So this "notifies memory" feature would be considered later. Thanks.
glimpse
· 1 year ago
@ashchan: No issue at all and thanks for all the work you put in this app :).
If you are trying to reproduce the error try it like I said above (I just made it crash again a few minutes ago by clicking on the Growl notification telling me of a new email in Gmail).
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@glimpse: I've been able to make this happen on my machine. I'll try ti fix this problem. Thanks.
Update: released v0.2.7 which should solve the onClick issue.
glimpse
· 1 year ago
Thanks ashchan. Everything seems to be ok now (no more Growl related crashes on my Mac :D).
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan Thankyou! Seem to work fine, for now... :-D
Ciao! :-)
MircoT
· 1 year ago
Hi ashchan, maybe I've found another little bug. If I click growl notification of new gmail message, gmail come opened two times on two tabs of Firefox. Repeatable most times.
Ciao! :-)
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@MircoT: Yes it's an issue. I'm still preparing the multiple account version. In this version the growl notification behavior will change a little. These days I don't have enough free time on this, so please wait for the new version.
MircoT
· 1 year ago
@ashchan No problem! Good work. :-)
Ciao! :-)
Salvador
· 1 year ago
Hey! Thanks for changing the behavior to get rid of the "0" It's fantastic !
I just read here some Google processes remain after uninstalling original Google Notifier, I didn't know that, how do I delete all? Thanks
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Salvador: Check the /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons folders. There might be some google related items there (I didn't remember the exact place).
Bernd
· 1 year ago
Hi, thanks for your app, looks nice but is it really using ssl? I looked at the code and it's conecting to http://mail... and not https://mail... Could you make it ssl only? Bernd
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Bernd: Gmail Notifr does use SSL to check your new messages. I guess the code you saw is the part to open the inbox in your default browser. Gmail Notifr doesn't pass your account and password to that url, so I think this is not a problem. But your advice is great and I'm going to change that to https. Thanks.
Ewoud
· 1 year ago
Great alternative to the notifier from Google! I especially like the fact that I would get rid off the unwanted update daemons. One thing keeps me from switching: your app does not check Google Calendar ... Is that a feature you are considering for inclusion in an upcoming version?
Wckdspdr
· 1 year ago
Great work! Awesome app.
One thing is not good though: when I click 'Open inbox' it doesn't go there. So I have to enter my username and password again to enter Gmail. What's wrong with that?
Bob Hahn
· 1 year ago
Is there a way to set up Gmail Notifr so that either the sender's e-mail address (or the first line of the e-mail text) can be seen in the menu line pulldown?
I'd like that basic info as Google's similar app provides. Many times I see I have a bunch of e-mails but don't necessarily want to take the time to read them just then...UNLESS one or more comes from someone I'm looking for a reply from. And then I want to open up the Inbox and read that e-mail immediately.
So it sure would be handy to have more information via that pull-down menu than just the total number of unread e-mails.
Thanks,
Bob Hahn
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Ewoud: Unfortunately I don't plan for inclusion of calendar. Sorry about that.
@Wckdspdr: Gmail Notifr doesn't pass your username or password to your default browser. So if the browser hasn't logged in your google account yet you have to log in again.
@Bob: From version 0.3 (I'm working on), Gmail Notifr will support multiple accounts. As of then all new messages' (or the newest 10 maybe, as many guys always have hundreds of unread messages out there :P ) brief information (sender's name or email address, subject) will be listed as sub menu items. I develop this app in my spare time, so please wait for the new version.
Thanks
Paul Kyritsoglou
· 1 year ago
Mr Chan, Notifr is a wonderfull idea to avoid Microsoft-like attitude! Would Notifr run under Tiger? Thanks Paul Belgium
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Paul: technically speaking it's possible if you install RubyCocoa on Tiger, but I don't have a Tiger machine myself I could not test it and make sure of that.
pete
· 1 year ago
is it possibly for gmail notifr to work over a proxy?
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@pete: proxy is not in the planned feature list. Sorry about that.
Stan
· 1 year ago
Great little app! I'm not a fan of the official google notifier either. I much prefer yours :-)
Looking forward to get v0.3 as I also need to check multiple accounts.
Rick
· 1 year ago
Have you got any plans to make something like this for Yahoo mail?
ashchan
· 1 year ago
@Rick: Sorry but I don't use Yahoo mail myself I haven't got any plans to develop a version for it.
Pedro Fardilha
· 11 months ago
Hi.
I just downloaded 0.30 but there's no way for making it accept my user/pass data. Pressing "enter", "return" the plus sign but nothing seems to work... or maybe I'm still to sleepy. ;) I'm using a a google hosted account and I'm testing on Mac OS X 10.5.6
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Pedro: I'm sorry v0.3.0 doesn't work for you. If you've used earlier version before, you account name would be automatically reloaded. If you're a new user, add new account(s) this way:
* click the 'plus' button, an account with a default name "username" would be added * in the username field (which should be focus already), input account name, then in the password field, input your password (which will be saved safely in you keychain) * repeat the above two steps if you have more accounts to add * click the 'Save' button to save and apply the changes
Note: if you close the preferences window without trigger the 'Save' button, what you've done would be just discarded.
Hope this help.
Marco
· 11 months ago
0.3.0 isn't even launching on my mac, i can see the process from Activity Monitor crashing a while after i started it. If you need it this is the problem from Console: Gmail Notifr[6463] GNPreferencesWindow#awakeFromNib: NoMethodError: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:31:in `init' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:77:in `load_defaults' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:31:in `awakeFromNib' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22 [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:31:in `init': undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:77:in `load_defaults' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:31:in `awakeFromNib' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' [0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
Giovanni
· 11 months ago
Ok, maybe it is a bug..maybe an ununderstood feature..but I have no new mail, and if I say check now to the notifier, it displays the icon of no new mail with a 1 at its side...see link to imageshack
Giovanni
· 11 months ago
Where's the link? Anyway /img296.imageshack.us/img296/3538/picture1nt4.png
meso
· 11 months ago
I'm having exactly the same problem as Pedro has. I can't add a new account (I'm a new user).
When I added a new account by editing a property file manually, it appeared on the list, but since I couldn't figure out what property name is used for a password, I couldn't make it work.
I'll be using this app for sure, once I can add an account.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Giovanni: This was a known bug that I've found my self and that has been fixed. Please download the app again from http://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.zip (though the version and build number is the same).
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Marco: Let me figure this out and thanks for the trace info. Update: fixed.
@meso: After you edited the property file, you're still not able to edit the account (add password) in the preferences window? I believe this is a bug for new installation (don't have an old version), and I'm working on this now. Sorry for this issue. Update: adding account was not very friendly as it requires pressing the plus button first to add a new add. I've added a hint message and disabled the username & password fields when there's no account.
Guys, as I've said, this version might be very buggy. I'll fix problems ASAP.
Alex
· 11 months ago
Hi,
this app should be the best ever... but it just doesn't work :-((
Same pb as some of you : when I enter my username and password, I press "save" then gmail notifr has just "username" as username and that's all ! it is unable to do his job :-( sniif
I am hopping a next version which will work very very soooon please !!!
Thanks
Tim
· 11 months ago
Just tried it for 1st time - love the idea of multiple accounts and small footprint!
Is this a part of being "a little buggy?" No matter what I enter, no matter how many accounts, they all show as username. I click Save and all that shows under the menu bar icon>user is Open Inbox and below that is "username/password wrong." And so when it is time for Gmail Notifr to check the Preferences window pops open.
John Doe
· 11 months ago
Same problem as Tim (written Jan 7 09, 11:58 pm)
No matter what I enter, no matter how many accounts, they all show as username. I click Save and all that shows under the menu bar icon>user is Open Inbox and below that is “username/password wrong.” And so when it is time for Gmail Notifr to check the Preferences window pops open.
Marco
· 11 months ago
@ashchan Thanks, it's working fine now, great job! I just uninstalled forever Gmail Notify.
Dan
· 11 months ago
I've also got the same problem as Tim! Is it possible to download v. 0.2.8 anywhere?
Timothy
· 11 months ago
Please please please make compatible with 10.4.x
Romain
· 11 months ago
Hi, I tried to use 0.3.1 with no success.
I'm unable to add a username or password.
I've opened the .plist with Textmate and converted it to XML but its content makes no sense at all:
Just tried 3.1 and no luck. I'm sure it will work. I am willing to help make it work.
Smith
· 11 months ago
I cant seem to get my login to save into the notifier. it keeps saving it as "username". it seems that others have this issue too. is there a fix coming?
Tim
· 11 months ago
@ Smith Which version are you referring to?
meso
· 11 months ago
Hi ashchan, thanks for the reply.
Even after I edited the property file manually to add an account, I could not save the password information (looks like the password is stored in the keychain, and rightly so, I guess I can't make it to work manually, can't I).
fyi, the property file has a permission of 600.
If you need anymore information, please do let me know.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Timothy: Gmail Notifr is written in RubyCocoa which is pre-installed with Leopard. Technically speaking by installing RubyCocoa it might be running under Tiger. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac with Tiger so I couldn't test this out myself.
Update: one of my friends confirmed he was able to run Gmail Notifr on Tiger (PPC) after he installed RubyCocoa. But still, not guaranteed.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
Guys: I'm sorry so the username/password issue is really a big problem.
While I'm working on the fix, you could download version 0.2.8 here: ttp://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.zip
I'd appreciate if anyone having the issue could provide some console log (if there's any).
meso
· 11 months ago
Hi ashchan,
I didn't observe any log in the following cases:
a) when I start the application b) when I click "save" c) when it said, "wrong username/password" d) when I close the application
Romain
· 11 months ago
Hi ashchan,
I'm back to 0.2.8 and it's all good.
BTW, the "fix" is not buit as UB. Being on a G5, I'm unable to test it.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Romain: The fix was for Intel only. v0.3.2 has been released.
@Rudro: Thanks for you insightful advice. I write this little app because I think it would be useful for some people (including myself). There's no intention to make it too complicated or very powerful. I want to keep it simple. As a notifier, it doesn't have to do as much work as a mail client should. As far as myself is concerned, I always process emails by opening Gmail in Safari.
I think some guys must have noticed that the support for multiple accounts is not complete: say you have two normal gmail accounts, and you've signed in (in Safari) with the first one. When you click 'Open Inbox' for the second account, Gmail Notifr just goes to the gmail address and you end up opening your first account. This is because Gmail Notifr uses gmail feed service to check unread messages, it doesn't keep a login token to access your account for any other purpose. Changing this behavior would even require a lot of changes to the code base.
Gmail Notifr is Open Source, and it's totally free. It might have all these features someday, but it will always be free.
I maintain it in my spare time (I'm a freelance developer based in China), I try my best to make it simple yet useful at a minimum cost (time, energy). So far I love this.
Thanks again Rudro.
Romain
· 11 months ago
Hi again.
0.3.2 works well here. Thanks for your work and patience.
I have an observation, though
I use Textpander — notably to avoid wasting time typing my 4 (sigh) email addresses — and it doesn't seem to work in the "username" and "password" textfields.
Note that I'm not complaining.
Thanks again.
Bernd
· 11 months ago
Sorry, a bit late, but thanks for considering to use https for connecting to the inbox. Good job!
Dennis
· 11 months ago
Great application!
My problem is when I click on the Growl notification window your app opens two tabs in Firefox. The "Open inbox" link works correct and only opens one tab.
I hope you can fix this. Thanks!
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Dennis: I'm gonna look into this issue. Thanks.
Gene
· 11 months ago
I tried the latest version yesterday and even though it does check my various inboxes and shows new messages, when I click on open inbox from any account, it brings me to the Gmail login screen instead of the inbox.
Cheers, Gene
OX-10.5.6
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@Gene: Please read this comment. This is the limitation of the current version. I'm still doing some tests and research to solve this.
BTW, do you think this behavior acceptable: when you click 'Open Inbox' for an account, Gmail Notifr logs in that account in your default browser. There're two things to note here: 1, Gmail Notifr will need to pass a authentication token to the browser. 2, you current logged account in browser will expire (as there could be only one Gmail session at a time).
patrix
· 5 months ago
Just noticed this after I posted my last comment.
Yup and the behavior your cite is exactly what I need. The Gmail Manager add-on for Firefox does that but I rather have some notification on the desktop coz I don't always have my browser active.
Romain
· 11 months ago
About the "Open Inbox" behavior.
AFAIK, before you added the multiple account feature the typical setup was having different gmail notifiers from different vendors with slightly different behaviors running at the same time.
Selecting "Open Inbox" from any notifier would open the default browser with: a) the currently logged in account's inbox or b) the login page
Either way, accessing your other inboxes implies logging out of gmail.
The only good solution seems to be to use an API to make all of it more seemless.
Somehow I don't think it'easy/possible.
Javier
· 11 months ago
Hi, wonderful software
I didn't notice there were new releases of it, so I think it would be great if Gmail Notifr could check for new updates itself (maybe with an option to "disable update check" in settings tab under preferences)
However it's a great app.
Greetings from Spain
Tim Lance
· 11 months ago
Instead of having Notifr manage Safari's logging in/out of multiple accounts in a future version can the user set separate browsers for accounts? Open Inbox for Account A in Safari and Open Inbox for Account B in Firefox? C in Camino, D in Flock, E in Sea Monkey, etc.?
Stan
· 11 months ago
Just found out about version 3... Same as Javier I think it would be great if the app check itself for updates...
Anyway this new version is just what I was waiting for!
Automatic account authentication when going to the inbox, and that'll be complete!
bob
· 11 months ago
hi James ~ very clever and very nice work on this , its great to have support for multiple gmail accounts for mac ! one thing i would humbly suggest for your next update of Notifr , please please make the menu icon darker .....it is very very hard to see it ( too white , no dark outline ). please please fix ! :) thanks again for this wonderful utility ! ! happy new year to you :) ~ bob
Rybber
· 11 months ago
Nice app!
Could you please change the growl notifications so ech mail is presented on a new line. The current look is a bit confusing when there is a lot of new mail. And maybe you shuld present new mail for each account in a seperate growl notification?
Also, there is no need to send a new growl notification when a new mail has been read - the other mails has already been "growled".
Good app!
Dmac
· 11 months ago
Like the app. It would be nice if the app could detect if only one gmail account then display the emails on the drop down menu. Also, need to space out the Growl notifications when multiple emails are shown. It's a jumbled mess currently. Finally, an update notification or similar would be appreciated so users always know if they have the latest version.
JP
· 11 months ago
I can't add an account using 0.3.2 (under 10.5.6). The username/password fields cannot be accessed and hitting the "+" button leads systematically to the application crashing.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@JP: Sorry about the crash thing. Could you attach a console log?
JP
· 11 months ago
1/25/09 7:54:27 PM Gmail Notifr[14684] RBCocoaInstallRubyThreadSchedulerHooks: couldn't find autoreleasePool ivar 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM Gmail Notifr[14684] GNPreferencesWindow#addUser: OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver # 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM Gmail Notifr[14684] GNPreferencesWindow#addUser: OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver # 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send' 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing' 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:105:in `addUser' 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send': Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver # (OSX::OCMessageSendException) 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] from /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing' 1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:105:in `addUser'
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@JP: the console log is helpful. I've built a possible fix version and sent it to your email. Please check it out.
JP
· 11 months ago
OK it now works as expected, but when I select "Open Inbox" from any of my accounts, I get stuck at the "Welcome to Gmail" screen where you have to input your username/password. This behaviour is true regardless if Safari or Firefox is set as the default browser. When I select "Check" however, they all do get updated correctly when I have received messages.
I don't know if this is by design or a bug, but I was expecting to be automatically logged in with the selected account, like say the "Gmail Manager" add-on does under Firefox.
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@JP: this is by design (please refer to this comment). I might be able to implement the automatic login feature in the future, but before that I'll have to do some research:)
VG
· 11 months ago
GMail Notifr is an excellent programme and I am happy to support with a small donation. But I would really like to know why 3.2 was working OK with 2 acounts for many days and still does on my back-up disc yet it stopped on my computer without any system changes or new software. Many Thanks. VG
Mitch Lewandowski
· 11 months ago
Looks good so far, aside from one issue:
* have a gmail account with special characters in the password (which i know i'm typing correctly), and it fails login (specifically a '?' and a '!').
Would love to see:
* ability to set as default email client (including ability to set the pref from w/i the app)
ashchan
· 11 months ago
@ Mitch: I've fixed the special characters in password problem. Please download and try v0.3.4.
@ VG: Were there any clue in the Console log? If so could you please attach it or contact me through ashchan at gmail.com?
VG
· 11 months ago
regret to say that I lost the log, but I expect it would be a problem similar to that experienced by JP, because the current version is working. Since the software accesses the keychain and uses the login passwords how can the users be assured that these and the computer is secure and the passwords handled by the software is not shared in an unauthorised way. Many thanks for your attention and reply. Best wishes.
Doug S.
· 10 months ago
The new icons look out of place in the bar, and I think I know why.
1. The links are too thick, they need to be just a bit thinner.
2. All the other icons have a slight drop shadow of white, the Gmail Notifr icons do not.
Though to be honest I'm not sure I didn't prefer the other ones.
LeeH
· 10 months ago
Hey there--I love the lightness of this app compared to Google's native one. I'd be interested in an option to turn off the menubar icon completely, with the app's Growl notifications being the only thing I see of it at all. Perhaps the app's preferences window could then be invoked by a hotkey.
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@Doug: Some users required me to replace the old icons with leopard style ones; Some said the new ones look good; Some complained they prefer the old one. I'm not good at icon design (I use icons from free set then grayscale them), and people have different tastes. Guess I should offer an option to let use both sets:-)
@LeeH: It feel odd as Gmail Notifr is a menu bar (status bar) app. I'll see if I could put this feature into plan. BTW, I try to not use global hotkey to avoid conflicts with other app or even OS X itself.
LeeH
· 10 months ago
@ashchan: Thank you for the reply. I understand Gmail Notifr is a menubar app, but I try to keep my menubar as empty as possible. What I really want is an app that will Growl when I get a new message in my Gmail inbox--and that is all I want :)
Bob Hahn
· 10 months ago
Check out the VersionTracker comments on 0.4.0. Similar to that user, I'd like to be able cycle through several accounts w/o signing out and then back in. Can't you automate the process so it's a one click deal to move between Google Mail accounts now that we know how many unread messages each account contains and some basics on each e-mail==enough so one knows if it's worth opening.
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@Bob: Automatic signing in/out was actually in my plan and should be implemented in the future. I'll keep updating this app. I write it in my spare time and after the Chinese Spring Festival (holiday) I still need to do my daily freelance job. But I'll try my best to update Gmail Notifr instantly.
Dan
· 10 months ago
You should check out www.iconaholic.com.. maybe they can help you with a new icon!
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@Dan: Thanks. Actually, my of my designer friends is working on this.
Hanzomon
· 10 months ago
Just want to say thank you for that useful little app!
MircoT
· 10 months ago
Hi Ashchan, maybe a little problem with 0.40 and 0.41: when I launch the app for the first time, OSX warn me about that "the application was downloaded from internet, bla, bla..." I hit ok and the app run fine. But on the console there are some messages:
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUModelTranslation.plist': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUStatus.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `classes.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `info.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `keyedobjects.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `sv.lproj': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `Sparkle.strings': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUAutomaticUpdateAlert.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `classes.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `info.nib': 93 Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `keyedobjects.nib': 93 and so on...
It's a problem with your app? Other app do not show that kind of messages.
Anyway, great app!
ciao! MircoT.
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@MircoT: I have no idea why these messages come up. These files are included in the sparkle framework recently added to support the automatic update. They were downloaded from official site as a development framework and should be safe.
Bob Hahn
· 10 months ago
@ashchan
Your Twitter update that "Some users gave 1 star on Gmail Notifr because the new version doesn't work good as old ones. Bugs could be fixed, low rate lasts forever."
I remember seeing that rating on MacUpdate but, as I recall, the poster was mainly irritated that after several days you still hadn't answered his e-mail about his problem. I suspect the low rating would have been significantly higher if you'd given the writer some attention. If you're that concerned about a low rating here and there, you'll probably have to be more responsive to queries. Many folks overlook the fact that this isn't your 'day job' and you're giving your Gmail Notifr programming away for free.
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@Bob, that twitter status was about personal feeling (yeah, I was depressed then). Did you see my reply in that thread? (I couldn't see any comments on macupdate today, wried). The thing is I didn't receive his email in the first place. I've tried my best to reply all Gmail Notifr related messages, either via email or on this page (maybe I should open a google group for this?). I couldn't be any more responsive if I don't see the query in my mailbox :-) And I believe from this page, guys could know that I have been very responsive :-) And was any body told I not only offer this app free, but provide support 24/7?
The poster contacted me yesterday. I built a v0.3.5 and sent it to him. It still has problems. I guess we'll contact each other about the issue more.
Thanks and have a nice weekend Bob. Go to bed now, watching NBA All-Star tomorrow morning.
Update: I had a look at the macupdate page, now I could see comments again. But the reply I wrote to that thread which explained that I didn't receive the email and a few other things was missing.
Steve
· 10 months ago
great software but what would be a killer feature to be able to assign a certain email account to a certain web browser like 1@gmail opens in Firefox 2@gmail.com in Safari etc.
zal
· 10 months ago
James, I have 2 gmail accounts on Notifr, mine and my wife's. Only one of them opens. If I click the other one, it still opens mine. how to fix that ? THANKS!
Munir Squires
· 10 months ago
I'd second Mitch's request for the ability to set Notifr as the default email client.
Otherwise love the app! Thanks!
ashchan
· 10 months ago
@zal, currently Gmail Notifr doesn't do the browser authentication, so it goes to the already logged in account. I'm planning to implement the feature in future.
@Steve & Munir, this will be considered in future version.
Simon
· 10 months ago
Hi, It would be great if Notifr could open a preferred browser/application when you select open inbox. I have setup an SSB (using Fluid) as my GMail client. Maybe just adding to Preferences the app to launch.
Cheers Simon >8-]
David Schlachter
· 9 months ago
I think it would be useful if holding down, say, the option key, and clicking the menu bar icon would, if you have one account, skip to the summary of unread messages within it. If you had multiple accounts, it would be useful if this option-click showed just the list of accounts, or maybe unread messages within them.
I think this would save a bit of time navigating the menu structure, which can feel cluttered when one just wants to see what new message has arrived (having not regarded the Growl notifications, for instance).
Sheldon
· 8 months ago
first of all, thanks a lot for your app. it's a big improvement on the google version, and is much appreciated. I'm having a problem where when I click on the growl notifications it opens my inbox twice, is this a known bug?
ashchan
· 8 months ago
@Sheldon, yeah this happens, but I'm still not able to reproduce this and do a fix. Does this happen all the time? Could you try quitting Safari and Gmail Notifr, then opening them see if the problem is still there?
victor
· 8 months ago
I have 10.5.5 and RubyCocoa installed, but gmail notifr doesn't launch properly. it flashes the icon in the menu bar and quits.
If it gives a 'nil' output, then that's the problem thought I don't have idea now why this should fail. I'll then do further investigation to solve this.
BTW, did any previous version worked for you?
Thanks.
victor
· 8 months ago
When I first type the requires line, it = true. after typing the following line and getting nil, typing requires again turns up false.
I'm now going to try a previous version on this machine. I know that previous versions functioned on other intel 10.5.x machines I have had.
victor
· 8 months ago
0.3.5 and 0.2.8 do not yield better results for me yet.
ashchan
· 8 months ago
@victor, I've sent a fixed version to your email. Please check it out see if it works.
Tom
· 8 months ago
Hi,
When I get 2 emails from the same person, Gmail Notifr 0.4.2 only displays 1. This just happened with 2 emails from MacDeveloper.
Regards,
Tom
ashchan
· 8 months ago
@Tom, Were these two emails have the same contents? In some cases Gmail treat emails with same contents within a threat as a single message and report the new messages count as 1.
ashchan
· 8 months ago
@Sam, treat Gmail Notifr as a read-only app (that's why it's called notifr), so no, it won't support this options.
The thing is, google doesn't offer an authentication method to access gmail from a desktop app, so I even couldn't implement the account auto-login for browser :(
I just downloaded 0.4.2. I detest the official google notifier and it looks like your app addresses all my concerns. Thank you for effort!
Ron
· 7 months ago
I'm having trouble with Little Snitch terminating Gmail Notifr, even though I've told it to allow internet access.
The developer of Little Snitch sent me the link to a nightly build to fix this problem, but it doesn't seem to work.
Any suggestions as to why Gmail Notifr doesn't work well with Little Snitch?
ashchan
· 7 months ago
@Ron, sorry but I'm not familiar with Little Snitch's behavior so don't have any idea why it would terminates Gmail Notifr. Did the developer of Little Snitch offer the reason why it would do that? Was Gmail Notifr able to start if Little Snitch was disabled?
Ron
· 7 months ago
Pardon my ignorance. This is my first Mac. What was happening was Little Snitch was tell me that Gmail Notifr had finished checking Gmail and had "terminated" what it was doing.
I thought that Gmail Notifr's internet access was "terminated". Terminated was the word it used to describe what was happening. That's what confused me.
Anyway, everything is okay. Thanks for your reply and great program.
Byron
· 6 months ago
hi,
the gmail notifr will not log in to an account.
it just goes to login page, but nothing happens
can you help?
thanks
byron
ashchan
· 6 months ago
@byron, you have to deal with the login yourself on the default browser. Google doesn't offer a way to let desktop app authenticate gmail account I haven't solved this problem yet.
John
· 6 months ago
First off, thanks for this app! I finally stumbled on it after some disappointments with the official app, and I have loved it.
However, I did not like the fact that the Open Inbox option took you to the basic gmail login page. I looked into it and found a way to embed an account in the URL when calling up gmail. I modified your openInboxForAccount method in the source so that it will pull up the login page for the correct account. If you were previously signed in, it will first log you out of that account (this way there is no conflict while using multiple accounts). Also the mod supports gmail for other domains. The technique can be extended so that it will log you in automatically, but I like typing in my password again, so if anyone else uses my computer they don't have direct access into my accounts.
If you are interested, let me know and I'll be happy to send you my modification. Maybe you could add an option in preferences so that the user could choose whether to be logged in automatically with the password you have stored or to enter their password at the gmail login page (which has their account name pre-filled into the username field).
I imagine a Compose Mail for Account option could be implemented using this technique as well, although I have not tried it yet.
I hope this can help - and thanks again for the work you have done making this great app available to us all.
ashchan
· 6 months ago
@John, I'm so excited to hear from you that by providing some url parameters it could give the user login pages for different accounts! Yes I would love to see how it works so please send me over you changes (or github forks if you have it). We could discuss further on how to merge it well so users that only have to deal with one account could still get the logged in page without entering password.
Thanks and I'm looking forward to your email. Contact me via ashchan AT gmail dot com. Thanks very much!
user123
· 6 months ago
What about adding support to have each account use a specified proxy?
James Chen
· 5 months ago
Sounds good. Will supporting a global proxy settings for all accounts good enough?
Roberto Saccon
· 5 months ago
Feature request:
Use Gmail as your default application for writing messages.
James Chen
· 5 months ago
Roberto, Gmail Notifr doesn't even has a entry for 'writing message' (compose) so how would you like this feature to be added?
Roberto Saccon
· 5 months ago
Well, I don't know how in detail, but what I am talking about is associating mailto: URLS with gmail, by default, when clicking on mailto: URL, on Mac OS X, the mail client configuration pops up, and it would be awesome if Gmail Notifr could re-map mailto: handling to open up Gmail, and fill all parameters extracted form the mailto: URL. I do not know the URL for directly composing gmail messages, but if you want me to figure that out, let me know, I would love to help to make the fantastic Gmail Notifr even better !
Adis
· 5 months ago
Hello! Nice app but I think there is a bug in it. I have chosen to notify me with sound and growl, but there just sound and no growl notification.
James Chen
· 5 months ago
Adis, could you try this: under System Preferences, open Growl, then under the Applications tab, check if Gmail Notifr is there and marked as growl enabled. You could also try to remove it from there, then disable & enable growl notification in Gmail Notifr.
charlie
· 5 months ago
this is such an amazing app and it looks great!!! you guys are incredible! thanks!!! (its faster to check my email than apple mail is).
DarkAngelPT
· 5 months ago
Hello ashcan Thank you for your amazing work in this very useful app!
One feature request: To have the option to choose what happens when the we click "Open Inbox" or the Growl notifications. I would like to be able to choose another app to manage my mail like Mail.app,Postbox,Thunderbird or even the standard Gmail website inside a Fluid app.
Thank you!
tubalmartin
· 5 months ago
I second your suggestion!!
Steve
· 5 months ago
sadly Gmail Notifr is not working anymore, just opening and closing again. I heard something to do with gmail authorization system
James Chen
· 5 months ago
Steve, I use Gmail Notifr all the time myself but I don't have these problem. Perhaps it 'crashes' on your machine? Did the installed version work before?
Leaf
· 5 months ago
Very handy app! My only suggestions would be, when you select the Open Inbox option, it would be convenient if the e-mail address could be auto-filled in Gmail. Also, the icon is dark-grey and doesn't quite match the Leopard menu icon pallet. Thanks for your hard work!
patrix
· 5 months ago
I have multiple Gmail accounts that I set up using Notifr.
I may be missing something here but when I click on the new message notification on one of my accounts, it simply opens the Gmail URL where I have to enter my username and pwd again. Seems counter-intuitive. It would be so much better if the click logged in to the Gmail account and went directly to the inbox.
Also, if another account has a new message, would clicking on the notification log me to THAT account or do I have to log out of my previous account and log back in?
Let me know. This is the only thing keeping me from using Gmail Notifr and making me use desktop mail apps.
patrix
· 5 months ago
Just read your responses on other comments so you can ignore this. If you ever implement the automatic log-in feature, please let me know and I would love to use Gmail Notifr again. Thanks.
tubalmartin
· 5 months ago
Hi, I've used for several days your wonderful notifier for Gmail and it rocks, good job!!
A great feature you offer is multiple mail accounts, that is GREAT as I have one hosted account (my company) and one personal account at Google.
I have 2 suggestions to improve Notifr:
1) It would be sweet, if we could customize the preferences' settings for each individual gmail account added. I mean, I'd like my hosted account to check every 5-10 mins for new e-mails but I'd like my personal account to check for every hour or so.... It'd be nice too to have different notification options for each account... That "per gmail account customization" is what will make Notifr shine even brighter!!!
2) Replace Notifr's icons with these ones: http://iirojappinen.com/downloads/ His author has made them specifically for Notifr and many many users of Notifr are using his icons....they are prettier ;)
3) Support at least 3 more languages: French, German and Spanish. I could translate everything to Spanish if you need it. Contact me.
4) What would really be killer is to be able to compose a new message in Notifr (sliding down a panel or fading in a dialog) and send it. (reading contact list from Gmail) I suppose that would be quite hard to implement, so it's just an "If-you-can-request" more than a suggestion. Think about it, that shorcut....would make Notifr a productivity tool!!!! A must have!!!!
Best wishes!!
James Chen
· 5 months ago
tubalmartin, really great suggestions. In fact the icons author and I have in touch and I'm almost 100% sure I'm going to use his awesome icon set for Gmail Notifr. Your other requests are also very reasonable I'll consider them and do a plan to implement them. (But honestly I won't implement the compose feature in the near future since I don't want it to be a mail client). Thanks.
James Chen
· 4 months ago
How could I contact you? I'm going to add Spanish translation if you could help:)
It''ll be a pleasure to translate Notifr to Spanish.
James Chen
· 4 months ago
That's very nice of you. I have sent you an email. Thanks.
Mike
· 4 months ago
Great app - I use an iPhone with Prowl to get pushed notifications of new email. My home computer sees a new message, displays a Growl notification, and that notification is sent to my phone. The official Gmail Notifier does not check mail when the computer is idle, so it does not work for my purposes, Notifr will continue to check while I'm out and about, which makes it perfect for me.
My one small request is an option to disable the "connection error" notification / Growl popup. Notifr will experience a connection error, and I receive these notifications on my phone. I'd rather not be notified every time it can't reach the server.
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Mike, this will be fixed very soon. I'm going to make it not use the sound and growl for connection error at all in a new version.
robin
· 4 months ago
Great little program! The one thing missing to make it a 100% better alternative to Google Notifier is the option to open GMail in a webpage when clicking a mailto: link. (i.e. making Google Notifr the default email client) Thanks for everything!
James Chen
· 4 months ago
robin, that's more a system preference change (or browser setting) than a feature Gmail Notifr should has I'm afraid. I would see if it's suitable to add a button for setting is from Gmail Notifr. Thanks.
robin
· 4 months ago
Thanks for the reply! The option to select the default email reader is in Mail.app preferences. Gmail Notifr can be selected as the default client, but then nothing happens when I click an email link. I mentioned it because it's now an option in the original Google notifier.
robin, wow I see. That' s why I dislike Google Notifier, which takes over too many things:) FYI, I'm going to use Iiro's icon set as the default one in the next release.
Name
· 4 months ago
I love this app, but could it be so great to have the option to display also new mail form labels, like other gmail addons for Firefox
Thanks a lot
Nick
· 4 months ago
I agree with Robin, the ability to have your app load a compose window when I click an email link as the official app does would encourage me to drop the official app for yours.
pur3h8r3d
· 4 months ago
Hey I really like you program, but I would like to see one thing integrated into it. I think it would be amazing if from within the app you could Delete, Archive, Mark as Read, etc etc from the app itself. CheckGmail for Linux currently does this. You can see it here http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/#about You can also use a custom icon which is also a nice feature. Just a suggestion to make your program more powerful. Thanks for everything you do.
Ryan
· 4 months ago
You should add support for Google Voice. Notify you of new items in your Google Voice inbox. This would be a great addition to this great application.
Henry
· 4 months ago
How do I get the inboxes to appear on my desktop as you have them displayed?
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Enable growl notification in preferences. Then when you have new unread messages they will be showed.
Brad Bice
· 4 months ago
Great application, thank you. It would be nice to somehow differentiate between multiple account notifications, maybe by selecting a different color Gmail icon to associate with each account. For example, red for personal, blue for Google Apps, etc.
Elemental
· 4 months ago
Hi, I just wanted to say I really like your Gmail notifier.
I have a feature request. Is it possible to check for new mail from the labels, as well as the inbox?
Andrea Lettieri
· 4 months ago
I just found your app, and immediately removed the official notifier :) The multiple accounts is excellent! I just got two comments - It would be good if you could send the "auth cookie" when you go to Open Inbox in the different accounts. Gmail Notifier Extension for Firefox does it (in case you want to take a peak) - Configure customized sound. I hate the MacOS default sounds.
Keep up the fantastic work!
James Chen
· 4 months ago
I myself hate having to manually log in when open a second gmail account in the browser. The "auth cookie" solution has been the thing I want to do for a while, but I haven't implemented it yet. Gmail Notifier Extension for Firefox runs inside FF browser that it's easier to deal with the cookie. I'll keep working on that and hopefully I'll find a solution.
I also might be able to implement the customized sound in the future. (I'm working on updating gmail notifr to support per account notifications at the moment)
titi
· 4 months ago
Hi,
I still have the problem that 8 months ago people said :
when I click on the Growl notification window your app opens two tabs in Firefox.
Any fix?
James Chen
· 4 months ago
titi, really sorry about this bug. I use FF as my default browser too and I can confirm this bug pops up from time to time. Unfortunately I haven't figured out the exact cause of the problem. What I could say is I'll debug more to try to fix it.
titi
· 4 months ago
I Can tell you when I reinstall the program the bug is not there, but it appears later, I can't tell you exactly when. Also, maybe it can help. When I updated growl (1.6) I got a bug with 6 to 10 tabs open in the same time. I had to re install gmail notifr.
GretaS
· 4 months ago
Hei Ashchan, After the update on Aug. 2, my beloved Gmail Notifr started misbehaving on my iMac OS X 5.6.7. I have 2 gmail accounts, the Notifr showed both of them with correct number of unread messages, but would only go to one of them. Trying to get the good, "old", perfectly working Notifr back, I have been trying to uninstall/reinstall the app (also plist.files/files in Keychain). However, today the app went from red to black, showing exclamation marks in front of my accounts, and not working at all! I have now uninstalled this one as well. Anything I can do to get the good Notifr back?
James Chen
· 4 months ago
GretaS, the exclamation marks (icon) means there's a connection error or the username/password pair is not correct. You could see the info below the 'Open Inbox' menu item of that account. Does this icon show up for both of the two accounts?
Gmail Notifr is still not able to process automatic login in browser. This means if your two accounts are both normal gmail accounts (@gmail.com), you'll always go to the previous logged in one in the browser no matter which one you click (via Open Inbox). I'm still trying solving this but I'm not sure when I could fix it.
Hi Aschchan! Thanks for your reply. I forgot to tell I already tried 0.4.2, and unfortunately that did not work either. After mailing you I checked my Console, and unfortunately there were several crash reports. I will try installing the latest version once more, and will be happy if you send me a mail when you have solved the process automatic login issue.
Best regards, Greta
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Diego
· 3 months ago
You can set an option in preferences to select what browser to be opened in every account. This could be a simple solution. ;)
nonc
· 4 months ago
Are those light blue bubbles on the desktop with the unread emails(i assume) part of the notifier??
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Nope. They are part of Growl, which is used by many popular mac apps.
rAf
· 4 months ago
Hi Ashchan,
Thanks for this great piece of software. I've only change 1 line in your code to meet my requirements : in gmailchecker : req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/mail/feed/atom/unread")
Now I have all unread mails for any label !
Maybe you could add an option to see all unread messages or only from inbox...
Thanks again anyway !
James Chen
· 4 months ago
rAf, yeah, it's really that simple to check a label via the gmail feed. The problem is many people have many labels (I have more than 10), so it's kinda difficult to decide how to add this on the interface. Only allowing users to specify one label is no doubt insufficient, but if Gmail Notifr has the feature to check multiple labels for an account that will make the app too complicated.
rAf
· 4 months ago
I agree with you, it's why the 'unread' label is magic, it's not a user label but a gmail system label for all unread messages for all labels. For the user interface a simple checkbox for 'check unread messages for all labels'...
MarqueeMarc DJ
· 4 months ago
It would be nice if Gmail notifr would handle mailto: links, so that they are opened in Safari - Gmail, instead of in mail.app. I think this is embedded in the official gmail notifier (wich I don't like at all).
thanks for a great app!
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Marquee, many people have requested this, so I'm going to add this in the future version. Thanks.
Jordan
· 4 months ago
My google hosted account isn't working. Says username/password is wrong but I tested it on the web interface. Any ideas?
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Jordan, this happens from time to time, the problem should be on google's side. Does the official notifier work? Gmail Notifr uses the google feed to read your unread messages information, which is different service provided by google than the web interface. Usually you'll be able to access it in 1 or 2 days.
It seems to be working now. I let it sit for awhile and seems to have sorted itself out.
johnarankin
· 4 months ago
Excuse me if you are already aware of this, but there is no message count visible when running in Snow Leopard.
James Chen
· 4 months ago
Yes this is a known issue. I've been busy developing a new version (it's quite different than v0.4.3), If you're interested in the new version, you could download the early beta version from http://ashchan.com/gn-beta.zip.
FYI: the new version allows you to show/hide the menu bar count.
For fixing this issue, a new minor update version v.0.4.4 will also be release very soon.
Note: the beta version might not be stable, so don't be mad at me if it doesn't work well:)
Bryan Klausmeyer
· 3 months ago
It would be great if we could choose a custom "received new email" sound for Notifr, in particular the "received new email" sound that is used by Mail.app. It would be even better if this were selected by default as the default new email received sound.
-- Bryan
Peter Gilbert
· 3 months ago
Would be great if we could specify what browser to open up gmail in... tia!
MechMykl
· 3 months ago
Excellent alternative to Google's app.
Would you mind giving a customization option for the growl notifications that allows them to be the same as Google's where it shows a small part of the body of each message in it's own bubble?
Thanks.
J.O.D
· 3 months ago
I love the Notifr, but I'm really missing the GCal. Do you have any plans to improve on the GCal notifier that Google has been putting out?
James Chen
· 3 months ago
Sorry but there's no plan for that.
slideru
· 3 months ago
I really love Notifr ... Great work!!!
On Snow Leopard I have issues with opening my inbox. I have tried v0.4.4 and v0.4.3beta. The mail counter works, but when I click on the email or on 'Open Inbox' I get the gmail login page waiting me to log in. I guest there is a problem with logging into accounts.
James Chen
· 3 months ago
Hey, Gmail Notifr doesn't log you into the account automatically. Long story short, google doesn't provide api to do it so technically I haven't found a way to do so.
Diego
· 3 months ago
It would be nice if Gmail Notifir could show the mail of one account in Firefox and the other one in Safari, for example.
It's a big deal for us, who have two or more Gmail accounts that have to open manually the alternative web browser to see the incoming email in the seccondary account.
Thanks
geoffroy Tremblay
· 3 months ago
Could gmail notifr open prism ? Prism is a nice way to use gmail, and it remember your password, which make it really nice addition to notifr
haha
· 3 months ago
james,
thanks for the great gmail notify. i have one additional functional request: possible to let "show unread" be account-dependent? it is useful for the email subscribed to some maillists.
thanks!
Kunal
· 3 months ago
Love the software, one small request / suggestion. It would be great if I could disable the quick animation when it's checking the accounts. I have it checking every minute, and I'm not interesting in knowing when it's checking, just when there's new mail. Right now, it's slightly distracting to see an animation trigger out of the corner of my eye once every minute.
Thanks for the all the hard work, really love the product.
Best, -Kunal
James Chen
· 3 months ago
Kunal, I'm considering adding a option to disable the icon change (which means the user can choose to use the default leopard style dark icon all the time). Do you think that's ok?
Kunal
· 2 months ago
That sounds perfect!
titi64
· 3 months ago
Hey great job! But did you miss the localization for the update? Some are not translated (french).
James Chen
· 3 months ago
Yes, I added some new strings that were not translated yet. Anyone is welcome to enhance this.
titi64
· 3 months ago
I'd like to, how can I do?
James Chen
· 3 months ago
Please contact me through ashchan at gmail dot com then I'll send you the localization files to work on. Thank you very much.
Xavi
· 3 months ago
I think I found a bug. The icon is not changed to warning when there's not internet conection.
Raj
· 3 months ago
Doesn't display number of mail messages anymore since upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1
Raj
· 3 months ago
I see your beta is addressing this, so have downloaded it and will await the full release. Thanks.
James Chen
· 3 months ago
What version do you have? v0.4.4 has fixed this problem and the current release is v0.5.0.
cbonami
· 3 months ago
Gmail Notfr doesn't pass corporate authenticated proxy. Apparently it doesn't use the proxy settings from Network Preferences panel. Is that right?
James Chen
· 3 months ago
No, it currently doesn't use proxy.
tbuteler
· 3 months ago
Hi,
I'd love to see the feature where you redirect all mailto: links to my Gmail page... I don't use Apple Mail, so it's kind of a drag... the actual Notifier from Google does this, and is the only feature that makes me regret having made the switch...
James Chen
· 3 months ago
This is in plan and under development. Will add it in a future version.
Jonathan Johnson
· 1 month ago
If I could help shape it a little further even, I'd love for it to ask which account to open.
Thanks for the great app!
TobySaxon
· 2 months ago
Massive bump. My only problem with Notifr. Love it so much otherwise.
Jeroen
· 2 months ago
Hi, When i click "Open Inbox" it pops up the Gmail login screen and not automaticly logs in. I Use OSX 10.6.1 (snow leaopard)
Mark Richman
· 2 months ago
I just git a git clone on your repo. Ran rake and got this error:
2009-10-22 09:28:24.178 xcodebuild[5323:80b] Unable to load platform at path /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform
Why would this be a dependency for a non-iPhone app?
raffaello
· 1 month ago
No login when I click on a unread message. Notifier just open the gmail login page with empty user e password fields.
OSX 10.5.7
Thanks
James Chen
· 1 month ago
Gmail Notifr depends on your browser's login session. It doesn't do the authentication (because google doesn't give us an api to do so).
raffaello
· 1 month ago
Ok thank you for the fast reply!!
Anyway let me say you're a very good programmer and I also like the way your website works.
Thanks!!
de maar
· 1 month ago
hey, good job. my only suggestion is to place the menu bar icon a few pixels down, in order to mach with the native icons better. also could make use of a little blurring. and it's a little bit disturbing that it shows every time when checking for mail. it would be better to show only in the menu, like notifier. and when there's no network, show it in the icon, so it could be seen directly and not to expect a mail to come.
Joe Roback
· 1 month ago
Hello. Some thoughts if you only had one account configured. Would be nice to collapse "open inbox, disable account, last checked" into the main menu and then only one of the two "check all/check" options would be needed.
I'm coming from Google's Notifier and I only work with one account (forward all email to my main gmail account), so I find it extremely annoying to have to always go into the submenu (as that was not necessary in Google's *lesser* Notifier).
and +1 for being able to hook mailto: links to Gmail Notifr :)
Thanks to everyone on the Gmail Notifr team. This is a very promising app.
James Chen
· 1 month ago
Joe, to simplify the UI for single account does make sense. Unfortunately that requires more programming logic which I don't not have enough time to implement. I've been busy with my daily job recently, but I'll add the mailto: feature as soon as I have time. Thanks.
Joe Roback
· 1 month ago
Let me retract my request. I didn't know you could do directly to the Inbox through the top level menu. The account name (which also has the submenu) is click-able!
I don't really care about the disable or individual account check menu items. If I ever need them, its fine going through the extra menu. I just wanted to go to my Inbox without extra clicks :)
I don't think it was 100% intuitive that that "account name" menu item in the top-level will take you to your inbox.. especially since it has a submenu, but I am super happy that it does :)
petieg
· 1 week ago
Would it be possible to set which browser opens up individual gmail accounts? While my default browser is Safari, i really use Chromium for my gApps account, and Firefox for my other gmail account... this would be a welcome addition.
All Comments
A comment of this soft would be adding a function called "mark as read", just like Checkgmail (http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/) in Linux platform. It is a very good function I think.
Cheers~~
Great app.
Thanks.
sam
1. Enable user to mark as read, delete or archive directly from the app, in this order of importance (take a look at the linux program checkgmail, which I truly miss on the mac). It might be a good idea to do this preliminarily from growl, if possible. Doing this from a setup like mail.appetizer would also be great, but it might be difficult.
2. Allow different sounds, growl prefs, check interval prefs, number of unread displays and browsers to open inboxes in for different accounts (and even labels for some of these features, avoiding duplicate notifications by stating which hierarchy to follow while reporting unread mail).
I feel that if these are implemented, you would have a large market to sell this app to.
Growl notification is on my priority list and will be included in the next version.
30/10/08 14:51:50 Gmail Notifr[3146] ApplicationController#awakeFromNib: OSX::OCException: NSInvalidArgumentException - *** +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:]: second object of each pair must be non-nil. Or, did you forget to nil-terminate your parameter list?
30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /System/Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send'
30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /System/Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing'
30/10/08 14:51:50 [0x0-0xaa0aa].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[3146] /Users/prepress/Desktop/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:55:in `setupDefaults'
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Process: Gmail Notifr [1905]
Path: /Users/A/Documents/ /Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/MacOS/Gmail Notifr
Identifier: com.ashchan.GmailNotifr
Version: 0.2.0 (28)
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [71]
Date/Time: 2008-10-30 15:48:17.085 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000021
Crashed Thread: 0
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Thanks for the detail trace. I will look into this issue. BTW, is your Leopard Intel based or PPC?
@ a:
I actually am not sure if Gmail Notifr runs on PPC, but I'll try to have a look at what happened.
Update: I've pushed a bugfix version (0.2.1). Could you download this version and see if it still crashes? Really sorry about that.
thanks for the great work !
I'm glad that the v0.2.1's bugfix solved your crash problem. As for the login thing, AFAI gmail remembers your login info via the browser. Gmail Notifr stores your account info in keychain and doesn't pass that info to the browser. That's being said, when you click Open Inbox, Gmail Notifr simply opens the gmail's url.
Many people want the number of mails to be showed. Perhaps there should be a preference item for the user the decide if it should be showed:-). For now I don't plan to make the preferences window too complicated. (so there's even no options to let the user enable/disable growl/sound notification)
for every Gmail Notifr (0.2.2) scheduled check on my gmail account I see this message in system.log:
Nov 3 10:35:35 JENAPRO [0x0-0x64064].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[1016]: warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session
Is possible to eliminate this message?
tks.
ciao.
I'm not a native English speaker either:-)
Gmail Notifr uses SSL to connect to the gmail feed and check the messages count. It's written in RubyCocoa and depends on Ruby's standard HTTP library, which outputs that warning every time it connects to the server. I'll check if this warning could be got rid of. If so, I'll make the change in the next version.
THX for u work,
thank you!
BTW Gmail Notifr (0.2.2) seems to work fine :-)
Ciao!
Thanks for your efforts on this.
Just one thing.
How do I change or mute the notifier sound alert?
It took me a while to figure out why I kept hearing the Blow sound every so often, which turned out to be every 3 minutes that I had set the notifier to check gmail.
Unfortunately the sound is not configurable in current version as the growl and sound were recently added to this version. In the next version I'll make both of them be able to enabled/disabled in the preferences.
Updated: this feature has been added in v0.2.4
Seems to work fine.
Suggestion: when I click the growl notification or if I select Open Inbox, the counter is not set up to zero... The counter is set to zero on the next scheduled check.
Maybe an option on preferences panel would be nice... ;-))
tks!
ciao!
Setting counter to zero on Open Inbox will behavior strange:
* what if the networking is down, so the user doesn't get to the inbox successfully?
* what if the user does get into his/her inbox, but decides not to read any new messages?
So basically it's a feature that will require complicated application logic. One of my friends actually suggested weeks ago that Gmail Notifr do a check again soon after the clicking. I guess we are all so used to instant checking that we couldn't bear the non-zero number on the menubar :-)
Gmail Notifr doesn't provide multiple accounts support.
Not in near plan. I still feel it's hard to make the multiple accounts logic clear, eg: how would you like the Open Inbox action to behavior? Now it just open your default browser and visit the gmail page (without passing any of your account information)
Update: still doing some research on this, planning to add this big feature now.
I am on a MacBook 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo...
Hope to hear form you, as I am interested in this app...
It's great to be able to set the interval for checking!
Thanx
Have you set up your account in the Preferences correctly?
It's a menubar app which means when you start it, it residents on the right menubar (next to Volume Controller, Networking Icon, Battery Info etc). Hope this helps.
Have a look at the [screenshot] then you'll get the idea.
Wow sorry, it seems Gmail Notifr crashes on launch if you could not see it running in menu bar. Could you attach the crash log here? You could find it by opening Console.app and locate the log at LOG FILES - ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Gmail Notifr_2008-....crash.
Sorry again for its not working for you.
Same Luis problem, but stranger in my opinion...
I've installed Notifr in a MacBook Intel (Leopard), and for 10 days all was perfectly running; same day, same procedure on my iMac G5 (Leopard), no life signs. So my idea was that probably the powerpc was not supported... But after an upgrade (0.22 > 0.24), the MacBook has the same problem! Launch Notifr, i can see the icon in the menu bar for just a quarter of second, then the app close. No crash log file found...
I hope you'll find the problem because your app is very useful! :)
Thank you
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12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Users/GOOD/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:33:in `init’
12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Users/GOOD/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:76:in `load_defaults’
12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Users/GOOD/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:28:in `awakeFromNib’
12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Users/GOOD/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain’
12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Users/GOOD/Downloads/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
12-11-08 22:22:33 [0x0-0x2b02b].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[197] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_import.rb:251:in `new’: use ‘alloc.initXXX’ to instantiate Cocoa Object (RuntimeError)
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Hope you understand this :)
BTW, I see you're from Hangzhou. How funny, I have visited your town. Lovely place!
I did see the app aswell for a quarter of a second, indeed!
Thanks for the information and sorry for the bad behavior of my software :-) There seems to be a very stupid mistake in the code. Please download this and see if it works: http://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.fix.zip . If it fixes the problem I'm going to release a new version.
@Luis: That's cool. You're welcome to visit Hangzhou again. Next time you come please let me know in advance then I could buy you coffee.
It seems to me that the fixed version works fine, but there's another little mistake... Now, if you open the preferences panel and choose the option "Launch at login" when you click "Save" the app close by themselves. If you relaunch the app and open the preferences panel the option "Launch at login" appear as not selected.
Ok, as usual, thank you for your app and for the big support, i simply hope to be useful for the app's developing. Bye! :)
I will be the one buying you the coffee :)
Sorry I can't write thanks in Chinese...
Bye
I'm really glad it works for you now.
@Marcello:
Could you please attache the crash log?
As i wrote in my november 12 post i can't find a specific crash log file for Notifr in the Console (at least with the "Gmail Notifr_2008" prefix). Now i've launched the app another time and i'll paste the console result message.
TY, bye!
14/11/08 09:56:26 Gmail Notifr[218] RBCocoaInstallRubyThreadSchedulerHooks: couldn't find autoreleasePool ivar
14/11/08 09:56:42 Gmail Notifr[218] GNPreferencesWindow#save: OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver #
14/11/08 09:56:42 [0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send'
14/11/08 09:56:42 [0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing'
14/11/08 09:56:42 [0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNStartItems.rb:35:in `set'
14/11/08 09:56:42 [0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:57:in `writeBack'
— truncated by ashchan
Sorry, i've forgotten a coupe of lines... :)
14/11/08 09:56:42 [0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
14/11/08 09:56:42 com.apple.launchd[65] ([0x0-0x2e02e].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[218]) Exited with exit code: 1
Please download and try out the fix: http://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.fix.zip
Thanks very much!
I'll download the UB version to install it on my iMac too.
Thank you so much, great work!
Bye
Cool! I'm going to release a new version.
yesterday I've installed gmail notfr 0.2.6.
Seems to work fine, but today, for apparently no reason, I see this on system.log:
Nov 15 15:30:02 JENAPRO [0x0-0x78078].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[2545]: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
Nov 15 15:30:02 JENAPRO [0x0-0x78078].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[2545]: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
...
Gmail Notfr seems to be stuck at the check of my gmail account, but was not crashed. I've restarted the application.
Any idea?
tks.
regards.
ciao.
Another information: when errors come on system.log, the icon of gmail notifr was the red M without any number... strange... when the connection to gmail servers is impossible the icon should be different.
Anyway I wait for the next release. Good work! ;-)
Ciao.
I like your notifier very much, regards!
There's another little mistake...
I usually receive the gmail messages with push service on my BlackBerry 8310. Since i have installed the Notifr the service appears to be inactive; the strange thing is that if i turn off the Notifr all works newly great. Do you have some idea?
Thank you, :)
@Pedro Luis: In fact you could turn either growl notification or sound off in the Preferences window :-)
@Marcello: I don't have a BlackBerry (I own a jailbroken iPhone), but I couldn't imagine Gmail Notifr would cause the push service stopping working, as it just fetches the messages count from the gmail feed in a read-only manner. I'll do a googling and try to find out what happens though.
today Gmail Notifr crashed...
I clicked "Open Inbox" and sbam!
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO Gmail Notifr[128]: Growl::Notifier#onClicked: NoMethodError: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked'
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked': undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: from /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO [0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]: from /Applications/Utilities/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
Nov 17 07:08:41 JENAPRO com.apple.launchd[105] ([0x0-0x11011].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[128]): Exited with exit code: 1
Seems to be related to growl...
BTW growl still run fine...
Good work for the debugging :-)
ciao!
Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse Gmail Notifr[153]: Growl::Notifier#onClicked: NoMethodError: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass
Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse [0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]: /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/Growl.rb:113:in `onClicked'
...
Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse [0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]: from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
Nov 17 12:54:12 glimpse com.apple.launchd[95] ([0x0-0x1f01f].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[153]): Exited with exit code: 1
No, I've tried many times, but I'm unable to reproduce this error.
The only difference "from the normal" is that Firefox (3.0.4) was closed when I've clicked Open Inbox... but, I repeat, I'm unable to reproduce this error...
I've deleted gmail notifr entry from the growl application list and relaunched gmail notifr, so the growl entry has been recreated. I don't know if this help...
Waiting for the next error... :-D
Good work for the debugging ;-)
Ciao! :)
suggestion: i´ve set the app to check mail every 2 min. if an email is inbox, it shows the growl notification. if i don´t read the email, 2 min. later the notification for the same email shows again. my suggestion is: "notifies memory". 1 mail -> 1 notify once.
@debaser: good suggestion. I've been thinking about added multiple accounts support. So this "notifies memory" feature would be considered later. Thanks.
If you are trying to reproduce the error try it like I said above (I just made it crash again a few minutes ago by clicking on the Growl notification telling me of a new email in Gmail).
Update: released v0.2.7 which should solve the onClick issue.
Thankyou!
Seem to work fine, for now... :-D
Ciao! :-)
maybe I've found another little bug.
If I click growl notification of new gmail message, gmail come opened two times on two tabs of Firefox.
Repeatable most times.
Ciao! :-)
I'm still preparing the multiple account version. In this version the growl notification behavior will change a little. These days I don't have enough free time on this, so please wait for the new version.
No problem!
Good work. :-)
Ciao! :-)
It's fantastic !
I just read here some Google processes remain after uninstalling original Google Notifier, I didn't know that, how do I delete all? Thanks
thanks for your app, looks nice but is it really using ssl? I looked at the code and it's conecting to http://mail... and not https://mail...
Could you make it ssl only?
Bernd
One thing is not good though: when I click 'Open inbox' it doesn't go there. So I have to enter my username and password again to enter Gmail. What's wrong with that?
I'd like that basic info as Google's similar app provides. Many times I see I have a bunch of e-mails but don't necessarily want to take the time to read them just then...UNLESS one or more comes from someone I'm looking for a reply from. And then I want to open up the Inbox and read that e-mail immediately.
So it sure would be handy to have more information via that pull-down menu than just the total number of unread e-mails.
Thanks,
Bob Hahn
@Wckdspdr: Gmail Notifr doesn't pass your username or password to your default browser. So if the browser hasn't logged in your google account yet you have to log in again.
@Bob: From version 0.3 (I'm working on), Gmail Notifr will support multiple accounts. As of then all new messages' (or the newest 10 maybe, as many guys always have hundreds of unread messages out there :P ) brief information (sender's name or email address, subject) will be listed as sub menu items. I develop this app in my spare time, so please wait for the new version.
Thanks
Notifr is a wonderfull idea to avoid Microsoft-like attitude!
Would Notifr run under Tiger?
Thanks
Paul
Belgium
Looking forward to get v0.3 as I also need to check multiple accounts.
I just downloaded 0.30 but there's no way for making it accept my user/pass data.
Pressing "enter", "return" the plus sign but nothing seems to work... or maybe I'm still to sleepy. ;)
I'm using a a google hosted account and I'm testing on Mac OS X 10.5.6
* click the 'plus' button, an account with a default name "username" would be added
* in the username field (which should be focus already), input account name, then in the password field, input your password (which will be saved safely in you keychain)
* repeat the above two steps if you have more accounts to add
* click the 'Save' button to save and apply the changes
Note: if you close the preferences window without trigger the 'Save' button, what you've done would be just discarded.
Hope this help.
If you need it this is the problem from Console:
Gmail Notifr[6463] GNPreferencesWindow#awakeFromNib: NoMethodError: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:31:in `init'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:77:in `load_defaults'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:31:in `awakeFromNib'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:31:in `init': undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:77:in `load_defaults'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:31:in `awakeFromNib'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
[0x0-0x4c04c].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[6463] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
I can't add a new account (I'm a new user).
When I added a new account by editing a property file manually, it appeared on the list, but since I couldn't figure out what property name is used for a password, I couldn't make it work.
I'll be using this app for sure, once I can add an account.
@meso: After you edited the property file, you're still not able to edit the account (add password) in the preferences window? I believe this is a bug for new installation (don't have an old version), and I'm working on this now. Sorry for this issue. Update: adding account was not very friendly as it requires pressing the plus button first to add a new add. I've added a hint message and disabled the username & password fields when there's no account.
Guys, as I've said, this version might be very buggy. I'll fix problems ASAP.
this app should be the best ever... but it just doesn't work :-((
Same pb as some of you : when I enter my username and password, I press "save" then gmail notifr has just "username" as username and that's all ! it is unable to do his job :-( sniif
I am hopping a next version which will work very very soooon please !!!
Thanks
Is this a part of being "a little buggy?" No matter what I enter, no matter how many accounts, they all show as username. I click Save and all that shows under the menu bar icon>user is Open Inbox and below that is "username/password wrong." And so when it is time for Gmail Notifr to check the Preferences window pops open.
No matter what I enter, no matter how many accounts, they all show as username. I click Save and all that shows under the menu bar icon>user is Open Inbox and below that is “username/password wrong.” And so when it is time for Gmail Notifr to check the Preferences window pops open.
Thanks, it's working fine now, great job! I just uninstalled forever Gmail Notify.
Is it possible to download v. 0.2.8 anywhere?
I'm unable to add a username or password.
I've opened the .plist with Textmate and converted it to XML but its content makes no sense at all:
growl
interval
30
sound
None
username
usernames
username
(10.5.6/PPC)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>growl</key>
<true/>
<key>interval</key>
<integer>30</integer>
<key>sound</key>
<string>None</string>
<key>username</key>
<string></string>
<key>usernames</key>
<array>
<string>username</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Which version are you referring to?
Even after I edited the property file manually to add an account, I could not save the password information (looks like the password is stored in the keychain, and rightly so, I guess I can't make it to work manually, can't I).
fyi, the property file has a permission of 600.
If you need anymore information, please do let me know.
Update: one of my friends confirmed he was able to run Gmail Notifr on Tiger (PPC) after he installed RubyCocoa. But still, not guaranteed.
While I'm working on the fix, you could download version 0.2.8 here: ttp://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.zip
I'd appreciate if anyone having the issue could provide some console log (if there's any).
I didn't observe any log in the following cases:
a) when I start the application
b) when I click "save"
c) when it said, "wrong username/password"
d) when I close the application
I'm back to 0.2.8 and it's all good.
BTW, the "fix" is not buit as UB. Being on a G5, I'm unable to test it.
@Rudro: Thanks for you insightful advice. I write this little app because I think it would be useful for some people (including myself). There's no intention to make it too complicated or very powerful. I want to keep it simple. As a notifier, it doesn't have to do as much work as a mail client should. As far as myself is concerned, I always process emails by opening Gmail in Safari.
I think some guys must have noticed that the support for multiple accounts is not complete: say you have two normal gmail accounts, and you've signed in (in Safari) with the first one. When you click 'Open Inbox' for the second account, Gmail Notifr just goes to the gmail address and you end up opening your first account. This is because Gmail Notifr uses gmail feed service to check unread messages, it doesn't keep a login token to access your account for any other purpose. Changing this behavior would even require a lot of changes to the code base.
Gmail Notifr is Open Source, and it's totally free. It might have all these features someday, but it will always be free.
I maintain it in my spare time (I'm a freelance developer based in China), I try my best to make it simple yet useful at a minimum cost (time, energy). So far I love this.
Thanks again Rudro.
0.3.2 works well here. Thanks for your work and patience.
I have an observation, though
I use Textpander — notably to avoid wasting time typing my 4 (sigh) email addresses — and it doesn't seem to work in the "username" and "password" textfields.
Note that I'm not complaining.
Thanks again.
My problem is when I click on the Growl notification window your app opens two tabs in Firefox. The "Open inbox" link works correct and only opens one tab.
I hope you can fix this. Thanks!
Cheers,
Gene
OX-10.5.6
BTW, do you think this behavior acceptable: when you click 'Open Inbox' for an account, Gmail Notifr logs in that account in your default browser. There're two things to note here: 1, Gmail Notifr will need to pass a authentication token to the browser. 2, you current logged account in browser will expire (as there could be only one Gmail session at a time).
Yup and the behavior your cite is exactly what I need. The Gmail Manager add-on for Firefox does that but I rather have some notification on the desktop coz I don't always have my browser active.
AFAIK, before you added the multiple account feature the typical setup was having different gmail notifiers from different vendors with slightly different behaviors running at the same time.
Selecting "Open Inbox" from any notifier would open the default browser with:
a) the currently logged in account's inbox
or b) the login page
Either way, accessing your other inboxes implies logging out of gmail.
The only good solution seems to be to use an API to make all of it more seemless.
Somehow I don't think it'easy/possible.
I didn't notice there were new releases of it, so I think it would be great if Gmail Notifr could check for new updates itself (maybe with an option to "disable update check" in settings tab under preferences)
However it's a great app.
Greetings from Spain
Anyway this new version is just what I was waiting for!
Automatic account authentication when going to the inbox, and that'll be complete!
Could you please change the growl notifications so ech mail is presented on a new line. The current look is a bit confusing when there is a lot of new mail. And maybe you shuld present new mail for each account in a seperate growl notification?
Also, there is no need to send a new growl notification when a new mail has been read - the other mails has already been "growled".
Good app!
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM Gmail Notifr[14684] GNPreferencesWindow#addUser: OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver #
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM Gmail Notifr[14684] GNPreferencesWindow#addUser: OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver #
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send'
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing'
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:105:in `addUser'
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `ocm_send': Can't get Objective-C method signature for selector '<<:' of receiver # (OSX::OCMessageSendException)
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] from /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/oc_wrapper.rb:50:in `method_missing'
1/25/09 7:54:40 PM [0x0-0xf3af3a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[14684] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferencesWindow.rb:105:in `addUser'
I don't know if this is by design or a bug, but I was expecting to be automatically logged in with the selected account, like say the "Gmail Manager" add-on does under Firefox.
But I would really like to know why 3.2 was working OK with 2 acounts for many days and still does on my back-up disc yet it stopped on my computer without any system changes or new software.
Many Thanks.
VG
* have a gmail account with special characters in the password (which i know i'm typing correctly), and it fails login (specifically a '?' and a '!').
Would love to see:
* ability to set as default email client (including ability to set the pref from w/i the app)
@ VG: Were there any clue in the Console log? If so could you please attach it or contact me through ashchan at gmail.com?
1. The links are too thick, they need to be just a bit thinner.
2. All the other icons have a slight drop shadow of white, the Gmail Notifr icons do not.
Though to be honest I'm not sure I didn't prefer the other ones.
@LeeH: It feel odd as Gmail Notifr is a menu bar (status bar) app. I'll see if I could put this feature into plan. BTW, I try to not use global hotkey to avoid conflicts with other app or even OS X itself.
maybe a little problem with 0.40 and 0.41: when I launch the app for the first time, OSX warn me about that "the application was downloaded from internet, bla, bla..." I hit ok and the app run fine.
But on the console there are some messages:
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUModelTranslation.plist': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUStatus.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `classes.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `info.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `keyedobjects.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `sv.lproj': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `Sparkle.strings': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `SUAutomaticUpdateAlert.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `classes.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `info.nib': 93
Feb 13 19:59:56 JENAPRO kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[404] Unable to clear quarantine `keyedobjects.nib': 93
and so on...
It's a problem with your app?
Other app do not show that kind of messages.
Anyway, great app!
ciao!
MircoT.
These files are included in the sparkle framework recently added to support the automatic update. They were downloaded from official site as a development framework and should be safe.
Your Twitter update that "Some users gave 1 star on Gmail Notifr because the new version doesn't work good as old ones. Bugs could be fixed, low rate lasts forever."
I remember seeing that rating on MacUpdate but, as I recall, the poster was mainly irritated that after several days you still hadn't answered his e-mail about his problem. I suspect the low rating would have been significantly higher if you'd given the writer some attention. If you're that concerned about a low rating here and there, you'll probably have to be more responsive to queries. Many folks overlook the fact that this isn't your 'day job' and you're giving your Gmail Notifr programming away for free.
The poster contacted me yesterday. I built a v0.3.5 and sent it to him. It still has problems. I guess we'll contact each other about the issue more.
Thanks and have a nice weekend Bob. Go to bed now, watching NBA All-Star tomorrow morning.
Update: I had a look at the macupdate page, now I could see comments again. But the reply I wrote to that thread which explained that I didn't receive the email and a few other things was missing.
how to fix that ?
THANKS!
Otherwise love the app! Thanks!
@Steve & Munir, this will be considered in future version.
Cheers Simon
>8-]
I think this would save a bit of time navigating the menu structure, which can feel cluttered when one just wants to see what new message has arrived (having not regarded the Growl notifications, for instance).
Console gives errors like:
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM Gmail Notifr[157] ApplicationController#awakeFromNib: NoMethodError: undefined method `any?' for nil:NilClass
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNStartItems.rb:21:in `isSet'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:47:in `init'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:183:in `setTimer'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:55:in `awakeFromNib'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNStartItems.rb:21:in `isSet': undefined method `any?' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/GNPreferences.rb:47:in `init'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:183:in `setTimer'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationController.rb:55:in `awakeFromNib'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain'
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM [0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157] from /Applications/Gmail Notifr.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22
4/17/09 8:03:46 PM com.apple.launchd[110] ([0x0-0x1a01a].com.ashchan.GmailNotifr[157]) Exited with exit code: 1
Any help? I'd LOVE to take advantage of the new multiple accounts checking.
Thanks!
Under Terminal, type "irb", when the ">>" prompt appears, type "require 'osx/cocoa'". It should give a 'true' output. Then type the following code:
OSX::CFPreferencesCopyValue("AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary", "loginwindow", OSX::KCFPreferencesCurrentUser, OSX::KCFPreferencesAnyHost)
If it gives a 'nil' output, then that's the problem thought I don't have idea now why this should fail. I'll then do further investigation to solve this.
BTW, did any previous version worked for you?
Thanks.
I'm now going to try a previous version on this machine. I know that previous versions functioned on other intel 10.5.x machines I have had.
When I get 2 emails from the same person, Gmail Notifr 0.4.2 only displays 1.
This just happened with 2 emails from MacDeveloper.
Regards,
Tom
The thing is, google doesn't offer an authentication method to access gmail from a desktop app, so I even couldn't implement the account auto-login for browser :(
Thanks.
The developer of Little Snitch sent me the link to a nightly build to fix this problem, but it doesn't seem to work.
Any suggestions as to why Gmail Notifr doesn't work well with Little Snitch?
I thought that Gmail Notifr's internet access was "terminated". Terminated was the word it used to describe what was happening. That's what confused me.
Anyway, everything is okay. Thanks for your reply and great program.
the gmail notifr will not log in to an account.
it just goes to login page, but nothing happens
can you help?
thanks
byron
However, I did not like the fact that the Open Inbox option took you to the basic gmail login page. I looked into it and found a way to embed an account in the URL when calling up gmail. I modified your openInboxForAccount method in the source so that it will pull up the login page for the correct account. If you were previously signed in, it will first log you out of that account (this way there is no conflict while using multiple accounts). Also the mod supports gmail for other domains. The technique can be extended so that it will log you in automatically, but I like typing in my password again, so if anyone else uses my computer they don't have direct access into my accounts.
If you are interested, let me know and I'll be happy to send you my modification. Maybe you could add an option in preferences so that the user could choose whether to be logged in automatically with the password you have stored or to enter their password at the gmail login page (which has their account name pre-filled into the username field).
I imagine a Compose Mail for Account option could be implemented using this technique as well, although I have not tried it yet.
I hope this can help - and thanks again for the work you have done making this great app available to us all.
Thanks and I'm looking forward to your email. Contact me via ashchan AT gmail dot com. Thanks very much!
Use Gmail as your default application for writing messages.
I have chosen to notify me with sound and growl, but there just sound and no growl notification.
Thank you for your amazing work in this very useful app!
One feature request:
To have the option to choose what happens when the we click "Open Inbox" or the Growl notifications. I would like to be able to choose another app to manage my mail like Mail.app,Postbox,Thunderbird or even the standard Gmail website inside a Fluid app.
Thank you!
I may be missing something here but when I click on the new message notification on one of my accounts, it simply opens the Gmail URL where I have to enter my username and pwd again. Seems counter-intuitive. It would be so much better if the click logged in to the Gmail account and went directly to the inbox.
Also, if another account has a new message, would clicking on the notification log me to THAT account or do I have to log out of my previous account and log back in?
Let me know. This is the only thing keeping me from using Gmail Notifr and making me use desktop mail apps.
A great feature you offer is multiple mail accounts, that is GREAT as I have one hosted account (my company) and one personal account at Google.
I have 2 suggestions to improve Notifr:
1) It would be sweet, if we could customize the preferences' settings for each individual gmail account added.
I mean, I'd like my hosted account to check every 5-10 mins for new e-mails but I'd like my personal account to check for every hour or so....
It'd be nice too to have different notification options for each account...
That "per gmail account customization" is what will make Notifr shine even brighter!!!
2) Replace Notifr's icons with these ones: http://iirojappinen.com/downloads/
His author has made them specifically for Notifr and many many users of Notifr are using his icons....they are prettier ;)
3) Support at least 3 more languages: French, German and Spanish.
I could translate everything to Spanish if you need it. Contact me.
4) What would really be killer is to be able to compose a new message in Notifr (sliding down a panel or fading in a dialog) and send it. (reading contact list from Gmail)
I suppose that would be quite hard to implement, so it's just an "If-you-can-request" more than a suggestion.
Think about it, that shorcut....would make Notifr a productivity tool!!!! A must have!!!!
Best wishes!!
It''ll be a pleasure to translate Notifr to Spanish.
My one small request is an option to disable the "connection error" notification / Growl popup. Notifr will experience a connection error, and I receive these notifications on my phone. I'd rather not be notified every time it can't reach the server.
The one thing missing to make it a 100% better alternative to Google Notifier is the option to open GMail in a webpage when clicking a mailto: link. (i.e. making Google Notifr the default email client)
Thanks for everything!
The option to select the default email reader is in Mail.app preferences. Gmail Notifr can be selected as the default client, but then nothing happens when I click an email link.
I mentioned it because it's now an option in the original Google notifier.
Also, for anybody having trouble finding the pretty menubar icon replacements, here they are: http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16...
FYI, I'm going to use Iiro's icon set as the default one in the next release.
Thanks a lot
http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/#about
You can also use a custom icon which is also a nice feature. Just a suggestion to make your program more powerful. Thanks for everything you do.
I have a feature request. Is it possible to check for new mail from the labels, as well as the inbox?
- It would be good if you could send the "auth cookie" when you go to Open Inbox in the different accounts. Gmail Notifier Extension for Firefox does it (in case you want to take a peak)
- Configure customized sound. I hate the MacOS default sounds.
Keep up the fantastic work!
I also might be able to implement the customized sound in the future. (I'm working on updating gmail notifr to support per account notifications at the moment)
I still have the problem that 8 months ago people said :
when I click on the Growl notification window your app opens two tabs in Firefox.
Any fix?
Also, maybe it can help. When I updated growl (1.6) I got a bug with 6 to 10 tabs open in the same time. I had to re install gmail notifr.
After the update on Aug. 2, my beloved Gmail Notifr started misbehaving on my iMac OS X 5.6.7. I have 2 gmail accounts, the Notifr showed both of them with correct number of unread messages, but would only go to one of them. Trying to get the good, "old", perfectly working Notifr back, I have been trying to uninstall/reinstall the app (also plist.files/files in Keychain). However, today the app went from red to black, showing exclamation marks in front of my accounts, and not working at all! I have now uninstalled this one as well. Anything I can do to get the good Notifr back?
Gmail Notifr is still not able to process automatic login in browser. This means if your two accounts are both normal gmail accounts (@gmail.com), you'll always go to the previous logged in one in the browser no matter which one you click (via Open Inbox). I'm still trying solving this but I'm not sure when I could fix it.
Does v0.4.2 work for you? You could download it here: http://ashchan.com/gmailnotifr/Gmail%20Notifr-0...
Thanks for your reply. I forgot to tell I already tried 0.4.2, and
unfortunately that did not work either. After mailing you I checked my
Console, and unfortunately there were several crash reports. I will try
installing the latest version once more, and will be happy if you send me a
mail when you have solved the process automatic login issue.
Best regards,
Greta
2009/8/12 Disqus <>
Thanks for this great piece of software.
I've only change 1 line in your code to meet my requirements :
in gmailchecker :
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/mail/feed/atom/unread")
Now I have all unread mails for any label !
Maybe you could add an option to see all unread messages or only from inbox...
Thanks again anyway !
thanks for a great app!
To test if it's a google problem, visit this link https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmai..., replace the USERNAME and PASSWORD with your own.
FYI: the new version allows you to show/hide the menu bar count.
For fixing this issue, a new minor update version v.0.4.4 will also be release very soon.
Note: the beta version might not be stable, so don't be mad at me if it doesn't work well:)
-- Bryan
Would you mind giving a customization option for the growl notifications that allows them to be the same as Google's where it shows a small part of the body of each message in it's own bubble?
Thanks.
On Snow Leopard I have issues with opening my inbox. I have tried v0.4.4 and v0.4.3beta.
The mail counter works, but when I click on the email or on 'Open Inbox' I get the gmail login page waiting me to log in. I guest there is a problem with logging into accounts.
It's a big deal for us, who have two or more Gmail accounts that have to open manually the alternative web browser to see the incoming email in the seccondary account.
Thanks
thanks for the great gmail notify. i have one additional functional request: possible to let "show unread" be account-dependent? it is useful for the email subscribed to some maillists.
thanks!
Thanks for the all the hard work, really love the product.
Best,
-Kunal
I'd love to see the feature where you redirect all mailto: links to my Gmail page... I don't use Apple Mail, so it's kind of a drag... the actual Notifier from Google does this, and is the only feature that makes me regret having made the switch...
Thanks for the great app!
When i click "Open Inbox" it pops up the Gmail login screen and not automaticly logs in.
I Use OSX 10.6.1 (snow leaopard)
2009-10-22 09:28:24.178 xcodebuild[5323:80b] Unable to load platform at path /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform
Why would this be a dependency for a non-iPhone app?
OSX 10.5.7
Thanks
Anyway let me say you're a very good programmer and I also like the way your website works.
Thanks!!
I'm coming from Google's Notifier and I only work with one account (forward all email to my main gmail account), so I find it extremely annoying to have to always go into the submenu (as that was not necessary in Google's *lesser* Notifier).
and +1 for being able to hook mailto: links to Gmail Notifr :)
Thanks to everyone on the Gmail Notifr team. This is a very promising app.
I don't really care about the disable or individual account check menu items. If I ever need them, its fine going through the extra menu. I just wanted to go to my Inbox without extra clicks :)
I don't think it was 100% intuitive that that "account name" menu item in the top-level will take you to your inbox.. especially since it has a submenu, but I am super happy that it does :)
Thank you and Season's Greetings!