hi.. and happy new year to all.
1) i know how to check for unread mails in gmail and display it in the status bar. can i check for unread chat messages in the same way, too? 2) when i use pidgin with the notification plugin dwm gets an urgent window notification and changes color of the corresponding tag. how can i make dwm react on the urgent window notification when there's an unread chat message in gmail? cheers, cengiz On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Antoni Grzymala <ant...@chopin.edu.pl>wrote: > Peter John Hartman dixit (2010-01-03, 13:51): > > > I agree w/r/t removing the status feature in dwm. If it isn't a > > trayer, then what is its purpose? Of course, primary motivation is > > that an alternative standalone trayer can do whatever it is that the > > status feature is doing anyway (or so it seems). Hence, it is > > superfluous. > > The tray “protocol” itself is a totally borken idea of the useless WIMP > paradigm. A workaround for a workaround. Makes even less sense in the > tagged dwm environment. > > As to the status bar itself, it serves a far better purpose than the > crappy tray (a useless 16x16 or so pixel area per program), for you can > actually write *text*, of all things, in the statusbar. The humankind > developed *writing* to move on from the hieroglyphs and I don't really > understand the urge to discard all the years of development and get back > to primitive pictograms for conveying information. > > If your apps are crappy or unhackable enough that you can't dig > interesting info from them (like unread IM/mail messages and the like) > and display that info as human-readable text in the status bar, than > it's perhaps high time to look for alternatives. > > BTW: > > > I agree w/r/t removing the status feature in dwm. > > Says who? > > End of rant. > > -- > [a] > >
