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Gmail Notifier Plus
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MIT License
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[Feature Request] Version for Modern UI #124

Open nvx2004 opened 10 years ago

nvx2004 commented 10 years ago

Are there any plans on migrating this great little application to the Windows Modern UI? Many Win 8 users (including me) would be very happy to see new e-mail message count on their lock screens without the necessity to run the quite bulky full-featured Mail app available in Win 8 and Win RT.

I have not been able to find any e-mail notification application for the Modern UI yet and using the Mail app just because of notifications might prove rather unfortunate -- even with the most restrictive settings possible the app's memory footprint is around 120 MB, not to mention the traffic generated by downloading of entire messages with attachments (the app does not offer downloading of headers only).

Thanks for considering this.

shellscape commented 10 years ago

Hm. Interesting feature suggestion. It would essentially have to be a separate application. Desktop apps and Modern UI apps don't share the same "space."

Have you taken a look at this app? I don't know if that will work with multiple accounts, but it seems to do what you're looking for on the surface -
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/4ab01c27-66dc-45f2-a522-312a46a2bba3

nvx2004 commented 10 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. Earlier I tested the app and it really does what I need, but its memory footprint is around 200 MB on my machine, i.e., even larger than that of the built-in Win 8.1 Mail app. In comparison to the memory footprint of GNP (~15 MB), well...

Maybe some other developer will eventually make a nice lightweight e-mail/Gmail notifier but as of now there really is nothing of that sort that would fit the bill.

shellscape commented 10 years ago

Wow that's a massive amount of memory for such a small app. I can't make any promises on a timeline, but I'll take a look at what would be involved to do something like this.

nvx2004 commented 10 years ago

Excellent, thank you! There's no pressure -- the "when it's done, it's done" timeline is fine by me... ;)