Bug#916051: ITP: birdtray -- system tray notifications for Thunderbird

[Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl>]

W dniu 09.12.2018, nie o godzinie 18∶08 +0100, użytkownik Adam Borowski
napisał:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
> 
> * Package name    : birdtray
>   Version         : 1.4
>   Upstream Author : George Yunaev
> * URL             : https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray
> * License         : GPL3
>   Programming Lang: C++, QT5
>   Description     : system tray notifications for Thunderbird
>  Birdtray provides systray notifications for Thunderbird.  It
> displays the
>  count of unread mail, hides the Thunderbird window when not in use,
> and
>  restores it on clicking the tray icon.  It also provides a context
> menu
>  with commands such as starting composing a new mail.
>  .
>  It is a nasty hack -- an external process looking at Thunderbird's
>  insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after
> a
>  delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc --
>  you'd want to use an extension like firetray instead -- but, it is
>  likely that support for Thunderbird extensions will be dropped soon,
>  possibly by the time you read these words.
Is it not simpler and much more effective to communicate with
Thunderbird via XPCOM ?
>