{"id":410,"date":"2011-02-14T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.robinward.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:18:03","slug":"adding-thunderbird-to-the-indicator-applet-in-ubuntu-10-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Adding Thunderbird to the indicator-applet in Ubuntu 10.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indicator-applet in Gnome was added with Ubuntu 10.04 to notify the user about incoming messages.<br \/>\nThe default indicator applet works with Evolution and Empathy (which replaced pidgin a while back as the default IM application)<\/p>\n<p>With the Thunderbird addon Thunderbird Indicator, you can add the notification for Mozillas Thunderbird as well.<\/p>\n<p>quote from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/libnotify-mozilla\/\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/libnotify-mozilla\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird which notifies you of new mail messages via Ubuntu&#8217;s standard notification system and the Messaging menu. Once a new mail is received, the Messaging menu&#8217;s icon turns green and a notification pops up. The Indicator Applet also provides quick access to your contacts and allows you to compose a new message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simply add the repository using<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ruben-verweij\/thunderbird-indicator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and install via<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get update &#038;&#038; sudo apt-get install xul-ext-indicator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The detailed installation instructions can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubublogger.wordpress.com\/libnotify-for-mozilla\/\">ubuntublogger blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robinward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/indicator-applet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robinward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/indicator-applet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"indicator-applet\" width=\"364\" height=\"213\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/indicator-applet.jpg 364w, https:\/\/robinward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/indicator-applet-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird, Ubuntu, indicator-applet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-and-open-source-software","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}