Display Thunderbird Unread Count On Docky

By , Published February 5, 2010

‘Docky Unread Count’ for Thunderbird adds an unread e-mail count badge onto your Thunderbird icon in Docky.

The add-on uses the Docky Dbus API to add the badge so there’s nothing to install or compile in Docky itself – it works just using the Thunderbird extension and the api. Pretty awesome!

Features
Right now the add-on only displays an unread badge on the icon. In later releases it may also gain right-click options such as a list of unread mails (similar to the GMail addon) or quick links to compose, inbox, etc.

Download
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/72199

Docky developer rtz pointed this add-on in my direction, so thanks!
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Mohan

    Very cool, I could use this! Thanks.

  • nicocarbone

    I would love a similar feature for Evolution

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for sharing this, it works perfectly!

  • ubu-fan

    Thanks for the tip…….
    Very useful Thunderbird Add-on

  • Anonymous

    This is amazing, i was looking for somehting like this, thanks …. :)

  • Anonymous

    am I the only one who still uses evolution? the one frustrating thing about the docky release cycle is that aren’t nailing all the default Ubuntu apps first.

  • Boni Boy Blue

    I can’t seem to get it to work. I got Python installed and as far as I can see I also have Dbus for Python and I also have the stand-alone Docky too.

  • Boni Boy Blue

    Never mind, I just found out that it only works with Thunderbird 3 right now. I’m still using 2.0.0.23 and the error logs say something like Subfolders have no properties.

  • Musl1m

    For some reason it was working when I was using the latest version on TB the unstable version bu with the latest stable version it hasn’t been working kind off strange…

  • Anonymous

    http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3968/missingthunderbirdicon.png

    Does anyone have thoughts on how to fix this? Thunderbird is apparently missing it’s icon in my system. Both in Gnome-Do and Docky if I run “thunderbird” I get no icon. If I create a launcher for “thunderbird” and put that on my Docky panel, the icon I chose displays but the unread plugin doesn’t work.

  • Guest

    is there something similar for pidgin?
    i want something like this unread count of adium in mac os.