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gm_notify outside of indicator_messages

Asked by Yuri Einullo

Hello! Can you please help me. I removed indicator-messages package, because I don't use anything in it's menu, except Gmail. All I wanted to remain is Gmail indicator, but it seems gone with all the other stuff. I tried to install Unity Mail, but it shows no indicator on the panel either, just the bubbles. I also tried installing indicator-applet and indicator-applet-complete. I'm so frustrated! Is there no way to just have a simple Gmail indicator on the panel, without all the rest of the items. By the way, I don't want to uninstall gwibber, empathy or thunderbird, but I don't want them to obstruct the panel items. Also, I don't want to place Gmail menu, in the Messages menu! Can it just be a standalone indicator on my panel, with an option to turn icon colour when message arrves, that's all...

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can install gm-notify, gmail-notify, gnome-gmail-notifier

Personally I like unity-mail. It uses the messenger envelope icon, you can remove the other indicators individually if you run:

dpkg -l | grep indicat

You can see the installed ones, remove what you don't need and log off and on for them to vanish

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Yuri Einullo (oddowl) said : 		#2

Hi! Thanks a lot for your quick answer! Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough... I tried all the above packages, and I do agree that gm-notify is a good one, I want to keep it, but I want to remove the whole integrated messaging menu from panel. Howvere, when I do so, I cannot find a way to place indicator icon on panel any more. May be I'm doing wrong, but as I understand, if I remove indicator-messages, I cannot place an icon in panel, like I did for google_taks_indicator and multiload_indicator...

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Yuri Einullo (oddowl) said : 		#3

In other words, can I move gm_notify indicator outside on messaging menu and place beside the evelope icon? Thanks!

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Yuri Einullo (oddowl) said : 		#4

Kind Sirs, I seem to have found the answer to my question - I downloaded "bulletmark/gmail-indicator" and looked into it's code:

        'Set indicator type based on type of desktop (yuk!)'

        # List of desktops which use Ubuntu msg indicator. Others use
        # app indicator.
        msg_desktops = ('ubuntu', 'gnome-')

        desktop = os.getenv('DESKTOP_SESSION', 'unknown').lower()
        msgtype = any([d for d in msg_desktops if d in desktop])
        if other: msgtype = not msgtype
        return Indicator.Msg(folder) if msgtype else Indicator.App(folder)

I just needed to remove "ubuntu" from the "msg_desktops=..." line, and it works the way I wanted!