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ashchan / gmail-notifr

A MacRuby Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X
https://ashchan.com/projects/gmail-notifr
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RAM usage (& one suggestion) #23

Closed caveman1973 closed 13 years ago

caveman1973 commented 13 years ago

Notifr uses 10X more RAM than Google's version (8 against 80). It uses the same as Mail.app. This can't be normal for a notifier. Is there any way to improve that?

I only use one account in Gmail. When I receive an email thru Notifr I have to navigate in sub panes to choose the account so I can go to the inbox. Could you simplify the menus ?

When you click in the menubar icon, show INBOX, COMPOSE, CHECK EMAIL, and the list for emails, so you can go directly to them. That would make checking email more easy with Notifr.

Thank you for crating this app.

ashchan commented 13 years ago

@caveman1973, The memory usage is because of the fact it has to embed the whole macruby framework. (blame Apple, they made the framework private :)

Regarding opening the inbox quickly, you can actually just click the account submenu (no need to go to the next level and click 'open inbox').

If you are not on Lion, you could try to download the very old version (0.2.8) here: https://github.com/ashchan/gmail-notifr/downloads

It has small memory footage, support only one account, and I believe the menu items are simpler. But be warned it doesn't run on Lion.

caveman1973 commented 13 years ago

Thanks for the reply.