ASHCHAN  I'm happy to tell you that this feature in under development and should be turned on in the future release (perhaps one or two versions later).

Thanks,

James  
(Version 0.5)

ASHCHAN  Just released a fix version for this (v0.4.4), please update it via "Check for Updates...".

I have some problem signing the update under Snow Leopard so it's a little bit late:)

You could also download a beta version with some new features: http://ashchan.com/gn-beta.zip .  
(Version 0.4.3)

ASHCHAN  This app depends on RubyCocoa, which is installed by default on Leopard and Snow Leopard. It's not practical to embed the rubycocoa framework inside the app, or to ask the user install development tool and rubycocoa by themselves either. So I'm sorry I'm not able to make it run on Tiger.

If you have installed rubycocoa manually on Tiger, chances are you're able to run gmail notifr. (I have helped some friends do that and they don't have problem with it)  
(Version 0.4.3)

ASHCHAN  I understand you concern. Here's why I added sparkle automatic update support:

1, many users have required for this, as they don't want to check macupdate or Gmail Notifr project regularly to see if a new version is coming out.

2, adding it really doesn't effect the app's logic, except:

* the size is bigger

* the memory footprint is larger

Don't worry about the thread numbers, though. Modern OSs take advantages of multiple threading to make apps run faster. Normally the previous version also ran more than one threads. For example, when Gmail Notifr checks for new messages, it checks in a separate thread, otherwise the icon and menu would stop responding as the checking might last several seconds if the connection is slow.

Now look at the Activity Monitor and look at other apps such as Adium and Safari, do they only have one thread? No, normally they have much more.

I really like to keep it simple and small and fast, at least as possible as I can. I listen to users and add what they require and I also agree is good. It's hard for me to make a decision when some users say wow it's good to have XXX while some others blame you for the same thing. Take the new icons for example, some users ask me to switch back to the old ones, but read the old comments, I changed the icons because several users said the old ones just weren't ux friendly (I'm not a designer :> BTW FYI, I'm actually replacing the icons again with some new ones designed by one of my designer friends)

So to speak, I could keep it very small, I could've not added growl, multiple accounts. Man I could even don't offer 'Open Inbox", it's a notifier any ways. :)

I really appreciate that you comment what you thought and comment so politely. I have several complaining emails in my gmail saying Gmail Notifr is getting worse by each version :(

I'm a freelance developer from China. I wrote this because I need one working like this. If there had been some market people telling me what to implement it would have been just easier.

Anyway, I'll try my best to keep it updated, and I'll always listen to users, though I couldn't do as you guys suggest on everything. The next big task is to open inbox for an account with automatic signing in.  
(Version 0.4)

ASHCHAN  There's some incompatibility in RubyCocoa and Objective-C which caused this problem. Could you download the new version and see if it works? Thanks.  
(Version 0.3.3)

ASHCHAN  This is a serious issue and I'm working on the fix. Meanwhile, you could download 0.2.8 for now here: ttp://assets.ashchan.com/GmailNotifr.app.zip

I couldn't reproduce the problem on my MacBook Pro, and I don't have any other Mac. If you find information in the console log, please paste it which might be helpful.

Thanks for your patience.  
(Version 0.3.1)

ASHCHAN  Hi again:

A new version with a hint message for adding account has been released.

To add a new account, you have to press the plus (+) button first, then input your username and password.

To update this little app to support multiple accounts (and the support is still very basic), I had to change the preferences layout, obviously the UI is not very friendly. I'll keep improving it.

Thanks,

James  
(Version 0.3.1)

ASHCHAN  Several new users have reported this issue. I'm looking into this and trying to fix it and push a new version ASAP. Thanks.  
(Version 0.3.0)

ASHCHAN  Thanks for your insightful comment DOUGOFTHEABACI. I've pushed the 0.2.0 version. Now Gmail Notifr supports Growl, and it also plays a sound when there're new messages. There's currently no preferences for the user to choose enable/disable Growl or which sound to play, though.

I've just started learning Mac cocoa programming. So the program will grow as I learn more.

I haven't think about the password pasting thing. I use KeePassX myself and hate remembering long and complicated passwords myself. In Gmail Notifr I just use Mac's default password field. I will do some search and see if this could be solved.

I've also received feedback from other users on the multiple account support. The program stores password in Keychain. I guess supporting this feature is possible, but that would make the program more complicated as there'll be other related issues to consider, eg. Open Inbox behavior, checking intervals settings. I'm not sure whether I would implement this but I'll consider this.  
(Version 0.2)

ASHCHAN  Growl notification will be added in the future version. Currently the app doesn't check the default browser, but I'll have a look and see if this could be resolved. Thanks.  
(Version 0.1.2)

ASHCHAN  Just updated to 0.1.3 which fixed a problem for the hosted domain: "Open Inbox" opened the normal gmail url. Now it will open the hosted domain url. 0.1.3 could be download on the project page, and I'll update here soon.  
(Version 0.1.2)