This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
22 Aug 2004
On Windows, Thunderbird will pop up a small window by the system tray when a new message arrives. The window shows the number of new messages as the message arrives. As someone who leaves my email client open all day long, I don’t see the usefulness of this. What would be a lot more useful is something like Traylook from Pergenex Software offers for Outlook.
Traylook adds popup notification to Outlook. When new messages arrive, the notifier includes the sender and the subject of the message. For multiple messages, the popup scrolls through all of the messages. See the screenshots and a Flash animation.
This doesn’t seem like a tough thing to do as a Thunderbird extension. Anyone with the time to take a crack at it?
powerful extension to minimize Windows versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, and Nvu to the system tray.
Features:
* Tray menus via right mouse click. MinimizeToTray provides quick access to many of Firefox and Thunderbird's most used features. For Firefox, easily view your Downloads or open a new browser window. For Thunderbird, compose new messages and view your Address Book while keeping it minimized all day to check for new mail. 20x1 spacer Firefox Menu Thunderbird Menu * Quick and flexible minimizing options. MinimizeToTray always allows you to send Firefox or Thunderbird to the tray by right-mouse clicking on the minimize button, or by choosing "File => Minimize to Tray" from the menu, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M from the keyboard. With the extension options, you can force the application to always minimize to the tray instead of the taskbar by selecting the checkbox inside the extension's options, restore using a single or double click, or minimize the application on close. Always minimize option * (In development) -Turbo option for Firefox and Thunderbird. MinimizeToTray implements this popular feature from the Mozilla application suite. Have a Firefox tray icon and menu always available, even if no browser window is open. Or have Thunderbird launch directly into the tray only to notify you if you receive mail.
Good news !!! If yr after email sound notification for TB on seperate accts.you will be HAPPY. I’ve been using Mail Alert 0.8 for a day or so and it’s brilliant, also allows you to configure pop-up message text to yr specs. Find it at www.extensionsmirror.nl in the TB extensions section.
Great to see the alert extension ! I was also looking for an incredimail like notifier.
What I also would like to see on TB: An extension that marks the email as seen or not seen. When I get a reception email, it’s placed under the send (wich is ok), but a simple icon on the email itselve would be helpfull.
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Sys Tray plugin?
November 2, 2005 8:28 PM
Hi …came across your site looking for a plugin that allowed thunderbird to reduce to the system tray .…then I went direct to mozdev.org and I think I’ve found the answer to some ppls problems:
http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/
The plugin lets you minimise thunderbird to the system tray, rather than have it use up space on the taskbar …it created an entry in the File menu …or keyshortcut Ctrl-Shirt-M
Cheers, Mark