KGmailNotifier is a program that alerts KDE users of incoming emails on their Gmail accounts. It is created with Python language, utilizing PyKDE/PyQt libraries.
KGmailNotifier is inspired by the Gmail Notifier and shares similarities with it. It also comes packed with useful additional features. You'll be alerted to new emails with a notification sound and support for LEDs on notebooks and multimedia keyboards. The applet uses the gmailatom library, which was originally created by Juan Grande for Gmail-Notifier at Sourceforge.
Users are encouraged to submit ideas and feedback. The developers welcome comments and suggestions for new features or improvements.
If you're interested in KGmailNotifier, you'll be pleased to learn about the new improvements in the latest stable and development releases. Stable Release 0.3.1 fixes an encoding bug and adds more languages. Development Release 0.4.0 RC2 removes a string from the popup window to allow translations more space, keeps the popup window open while it has mouse focus, shows the sender's name instead of their email address, and fixes several errors for GCC-4.3. There was also a configuration handling problem fixed for the "Don't ask again" prompts on quit and a small typo was corrected in the configuration dialog. Finally, some code cleaning was performed to improve performance.
Overall, KGmailNotifier is an excellent applet that will improve your Gmail experience. It's easy to use and packed with useful features. Try it out and see how it can improve your productivity.
Version 0.5.0: N/A