Gmail.app 0.5

Jan1910Jan 19, 10

Gmail.app is Gmail for your Mac OS X machine. It uses Prism to wrap Gmail in a warm and fuzzy layer of Apple, and features new mail notifications (requires the Growl framework), unread message count on the dock icon, and playing sounds when messages are received. Hit the link below to download.

Download Gmail.app - Gmail for Mac

Installation Note:

Gmail.app will only run when placed in your Mac's Applications folder. Anywhere else, it will not start up.

About Jason Miller:

I am a JavaScript developer from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. When I am not typing green code onto a black screen, you might find me at the nearest coffee pub checking out the brew. I run a internet firm called developIT and maintain blogs and web apps when I can.

Comments

Jacob#

Thanks for writing the application! Gmail via Prism is a great idea but the lack of badge notifications makes it unusable for me. I have Growl 1.2 installed and running on SL 10.6.2 (I do not have the growl "framework" on my machine as I thought that was a developer only package).

Gmail shows up in my growl applications list yet your application (installed in my Applications folder per your installation note) does not show the badges or any of the other notifications. Any ideas? Should I download the framework kit off Growl's site; and if so where does that install?

Thanks!

jason#

Jacob,

There could be a few reasons you are not seeing any new mail notifications. My first inclination is that the recent update Google pushed out for Gmail has renamed some of the menu items, which makes the Gmail.app unread count fail without warning. I will check tonight to see if this is the case. I don't think the error is coming from Growl, because the dock badges are independent of that framework. Growl 1.2 should be sufficient, and the Gmail app is shown in your preferences. I will release an update to Gmail.app if I find that the unread notifications code has been broken by the Gmail update.

- Jason

Jacob #

Sounds good. I'll check back regularly for updates!