Indicator Applet

Can I use Indicator Applet with Thunderbird?

Asked by Gergely Máté

Talking about e-mail, I prefer Mozilla Thunderbird to Evolution. Can use the Indicator Applet with Thunderbird?

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Best Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#1

To launch Thunderbird from the Indicator Applet:
Create a file named ‘thunderbird’ in:
 /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ folder with the following contents:
 ‘/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop’.

hope that helps

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#2

Thank you!

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neuromancer (neuromancer) said : 		#3

Doesn't work at 100%, I think because Thunderbird doesn't support anymore messagging menu
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu/

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Jens090194@hotmail.de (jens090194) said : 		#4

Little question: the direktory is owned by root at my pc so i can't create a new file in it

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#5

Jens: try to create the file as root. For example use "gksudo gedit /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/" to create it.

'gksudo' means you want to act like root, 'gedit' is the text editor in GNOME.

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Dmitri (dmitry-a-moudraninets) said : 		#6

And how to get new-mail notifications to work in Thunderbird?

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Герман-Евтушенко Екатерина (assoly) said : 		#7

I'd like to get new-mail notifications too.

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Ofer Cohen (oc666) said : 		#8

Maybe try one of the next posts:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1439519
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/09/indicator-applet-libnotify-support-for-thunderbird/

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lomitko (lomitko) said : 		#9

Could such process but for claws-mail be guessed from this one or is there a catch ?

thank you,

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Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#10

lomitko: You will have to talk to the Claws Mail developers about that.