<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 16, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">some kind of mail alert icon which one could dock in<BR>the gnome applet bar which would indicate when new e-mail has been <BR>fetched from my imap server by thunderbird. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> Google says there's a panel applet called "mailcheck"; it will probably alert BEFORE thunderbird fetches it. There may be others. Haven't tried any of 'em. The key for the search is to know the applet bar is called the "panel" in Gnome-speak.<BR><BR> <A href="http://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+panel+imap">http://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+panel+imap</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I took Bill's suggestion one step farther and searched for "gnome panel thunderbird" and eventually I found this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/index.html">http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/index.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Its a Thunderbird extension to do exactly what you want, it should work with KDE and Gnome.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Josh</DIV></BODY></HTML>