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[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 23:05 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 21:05 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > Perhaps I'm in the minority in wanting an icon instead of a sound.
> > (It is a seldom seen occurrence that my preferences and those of the
> > majority of the rest of the world coincide.)  :-)
> 
> No, you're definitely not alone.  I want that feature.  One of my
> clients wants that feature.  Me want to cry.
> 
> There was a bounty offered for it, and it was paid out, actually.  Makes
> me wonder even more why it's not in Evolution.
> 
> Anyway, you might want to give evonotify a try
> (http://www.grawert.net/software/evonotify/index.html).  It does exactly
> what you and I want.  But, the guy that coded it built it with Ubuntu in
> mind.  It needs some clean up to build properly on a FC5 system.
> 
> I tried desperately to get it and its dependencies to work on a CentOS 4
> system, but I just couldn't do it.  I did manage to get it mostly
> working FC4, but it was flaky.
> 
> Someone needs to take evonotify and build it for Fedora, and CentOS, for
> that matter.  It would serve as a great stop-gap solution.
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I think that there are a lot of utilities that can do that sort of thing...the thing that comes immediately to my mind is gkrellm

Craig