http://www.mumbles-project.org a plugin driven, modern notification system for Gnome Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:11:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're very close to a 0.4.2 release... If you're feeling brave and know your way around svn code, we invite you to try out the soon to be released 0.4.2 version. You can check out pre-release branch here: svn co https://mumbles.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mumbles/branches/backports0.4-branch mumbles0.4-branch Please see "Pre-release Notes" in the README for some important information ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2008/08/26/pre-release-testers-wanted/ I just logged into the admin site and found quite a few comments awaiting moderation for which, for some reason, I did not receive an email update. I have approved those comments and apologize to all of you for the delay in getting them on the site. Please note, that while ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2008/08/04/comments-updated/ I took the twittercheck script from my last post a bit further and created a Twitter Screenlet. The mumbles plugin here will work with the screenlet (it will continue to work with the simple twittercheck script there as well). Let me know what you think. Note: mumbles users will most likely want to ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2008/03/29/twitter-screenlet/ [edit 03.23: Files linked here are for the current version 0.4. svn has been updated working towards 0.5 - if you are running an up to date mumbles from svn you can find the updated twitter plugin there.] [edit 03.24: Updated the twitter check script. Added option to check public timeline ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2008/03/23/twitter-plugin/ My man, magicrobotmonkey, just published a cool tutorial about using compiz and mumbles to make self destructing desktop notifications. Video included. Check it out. http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/10/17/this-message-will-self-destruct/ Amarok Script & Mumbles Plugin By popular demand... I finally took the plunge, installed Amarok, started mucking around with their scripting capabilities, and came out with a script that allowed me to create a mumbles plugin using the methodology outlined here. I have seen that there are plans to switch to DBus in ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/09/05/new-plugin-amarok-track-change-notifications/ Evolution Plugin This tutorial will show you how to write a mumbles plugin for Evolution that sends a notification when new mail is received. Plugin Files If you want to save yourself some typing (or indenting!) time, or just want to grab the plugin, the files for the tutorial are available here. [edit: If ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/09/03/tutorial-write-an-evolution-plugin/ Mumbles 0.4 is Out Download and Installation instructions for 0.4 can be found here. New to this Release: New Plugins mumbles now has plugins for Gaim, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, Firefox*, Thunderbird*, and custom notifications. *Firefox and Thunderbird plugins require a DBus extension. Please see the extras page for more information. Theme Support mumbles 0.4 introduces theming ability. ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/08/30/mumbles-04-is-out/ I've been getting pretty regular questions about the state of the project, so I thought I'd start a new thread and ask for some feedback from those of you following the site (and asking me about it). I've been preoccupied with the job thing, so I haven't been working too much ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/08/04/request-for-comments/ A plugin for Pidgin is now available in SVN repository. The setup script has been updated to build the egg, so if you update or check out the current version, the installation will remain the same. If you just check out the Pidgin plugin you can either run the newest setup.py ... http://www.mumbles-project.org/2007/06/03/pidgin-plugin-now-available/