Re: gen_util_applet mailcheck patch

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:

> > I've included a patch that adds the ability to the mailcheck applet to
> > launch a user-defined email program (well, any program) when clicked.
> 
> It would be preferable to do this via GOAD, so that people don't get a new
> mail reader if they are already running one, and for other expandibility
> We will ignore the facts that the only CORBA-aware mail reader is balsa,
> that there is no GNOME::MailReader interface, and that this will not work
> with even the mail reader that I use. :)

Yes, at least a gnome-wide email configuration occured to me (I
had to check control-center to make sure one didn't exist).  The GOAD
implementation you suggested didn't occur to me (I am not vary familiar
with CORBA/ORBit yet), that would probably be best for GNOME.  Possibly
something like the wm-properties capplet would do, with the user able to
specify a GNOME email reader (balsa) or one managed by the capplet or
another program (for pine, netscape mail, etc.).

This could probably be combined with the configuration of the libmailcheck
configuration, unless that would be too complicated or non-intuitive.

Jacob Berkman

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