Discussion on Gmail Favicon Alerts 3 | Userscripts.org

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by TEATime

TEATime — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:26:28 +0000

That's cool! I'm still open to testing anything want you throw at me.

Thanks!

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:44:51 +0000

Nope, not as of yet. It's requiring a fair amount of work, which I've yet to be able to commit at this point. It's still on the Todo list, though.

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by TEATime

TEATime — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:07:46 +0000

Hi Peter,

I was wondering if you'd made any progress on this?

Thanks!

Google Chrome, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:56:31 +0000

Chrome (at this time) does not update its Favicons when the new element is introduced into the DOM, which pretty much makes the Favicon Alerts useless. I'm trying to see how I can get that changed, but haven't had any luck.

I'll try to meet some Chromium hackers and see what I can do.

Google Chrome, replied by Fabio72

Fabio72 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:18:49 +0000

It doesn't work in Chrome.
Any suggestion?

Extend to other websites, replied by panda

panda — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:28:51 +0000

I've been searching for an alert like this one for yahoo mail, and can find absolutely none. It'd be awesome if you could extend it! (: (:

Opera support, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:33:07 +0000

Awesome, you just saved me some time. :)

Opera support, replied by rdsu

rdsu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:28:54 +0000

It's working fine on Opera RC...

Sorry, my mistake ;)

Opera support, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:26:15 +0000

I'll be able to take a look at this in the coming week. I don't believe I tried it in the 10 beta back in May, so I'm not sure what's going on in there.

Opera support, replied by rdsu

rdsu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:20:48 +0000

Doesn't work with Opera 10.1750 RC2 :(

High Unread Counts, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:02:00 +0000

It's great to hear feedback from usage based on a high inbox count—especially with a great feature suggestion. I'll be pushing this fix with the next release, hopefully within the week.

I decided to just righ-align the text, so that the smaller numbers (1s, 10s, & 100s) will always appear. Going over 1000, the number will expand to the left. This, of course, will obstruct the large numbers, but will actually be useful.

Thanks again for the suggestion!

Peter

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by TEATime

TEATime — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:58:38 +0000

Hi Peter,

Wow, I can't be the only person with a crappy computer. Heh

Yeah, I'd be glad to help test it out. Just let me know what I need to do.

Thanks for looking into this!

High Unread Counts, replied by I am me

I am me — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:51:55 +0000

With 47776 unread messages (I've dumped a lot of old mail into my Gmail account), the favicon displays "477". This doesn't really help me. When the count is too high, it would be much more useful to display only the last few digits (so "776" or maybe "..76"), so the number would actually change when new mail came in.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:44:50 +0000

I think you're the first person to ask about this!

After about an hour of debugging, I've been able to get it to show the icon, but the old interface loads in so many iframes, the script is constantly being reloaded, causing the icon to flicker as each frame may or may not have access to the appropriate scope to see the inbox count.

If I can figure this out, I'll be happy to put it up, but I imagine that it'll be at least next weekend before I can get it stable.

If I can get it running in my environment, would you mind testing the script for a couple of days? As the DOMs are completely different, I'm not sure what potential gotchas exist in the old version.

Thanks!
Peter

Make work with older version of Gmail?, replied by TEATime

TEATime — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:34:15 +0000

Hi Peter,

v3.0.8 on Firefox v3.5.2 on Windows XP SP2.

This is great!! But I was disappointed to find out that it doesn't work with the older version of Gmail. I mainly use the older version because the newer version drags Firefox down so much on my relatively slow computer.

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:34:56 +0000

Awesome, thanks for posting it!

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by badenoch

badenoch — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:46:33 +0000

I was actually using old icons. Photoshop 64 bit wasn't liking the .ico files so this took me longer to make one for your v3 icon set than it should have.

Base 64 Gray Mail Icon...

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

Option just for mail count?, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:14:29 +0000

Just took another look at your message and realized this won't solve your problem. At this point, you'd need to follow the steps in this thread (http://userscripts.org/topics/30625) to add the pixel-by-pixel colors to the array. Unfortunately, the <canvas> is limited for security from accepting a remote or Base64-encoded image, so the image must be constructed from a pixel map.

As I mentioned in the other thread, I might make a tool to make this a little easier.</canvas>

Option just for mail count?, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:40 +0000

The script will be a bit overkill, but if you comment out line 171-172 and add this.setIcon(self.icons.read); below, it should set the icon to the red envelope, and not incur anymore overhead.

So, to sum up, line 171-172 changes from:

this.timer = setInterval(this.poll, 500);
this.poll();

To:

//this.timer = setInterval(this.poll, 500);
//this.poll();
this.setIcon(self.icons.read);

I have tested it to work in Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP.

Option just for mail count?, replied by melvynadam

melvynadam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:31:23 +0000

I'm grateful you've updated the script and find the count of the number of unread messages very useful. However I'd like to disable the changing of the icon and just leave your Red icon there permanently. Can you tell me which elements of the script to comment out in order to make this happen?

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:03:26 +0000

Glad to hear that worked out! Would you mind posting the Base64 data for your grey version for other users or (possibly) future icon packs?

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by badenoch

badenoch — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:22:56 +0000

Ah ha... I see now. I'm way too lazy to rebuild the icon pixel by pixel. :)

With 'Title Tweaks' enabled I have the unread count right there in the title (only if I'm on #inbox probably) so I'm good without the count in the icon as well. ...disabled the unread count in the script and my gray and red icons are happy now.

Thanks for the script and the help!

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by Peter Wooley

Peter Wooley — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:46:36 +0000

Yes, the unread icon in base64 is only used if you have turned off the Unread Count. After that, things get hacky. Because the HTML5 <canvas> tag cannot accept base64 image data or a remote URL, the unread icon with dynamic text on top of it must be generated in code. In order to do this, the this.pixelMaps.icons.unread object is assigned to a 2-dimensional 16x16 array of hex values (though, they could be rgb). Yes, this is ridiculous, and yes it is terribly cumbersome, but it's currently the only solution I've found to get around the security limitations of <canvas> on remote domains.

So, to solve your problem, you can modify the hex values in the this.pixelMaps.icons.unread array to match those in your icon. I've yet to write a quick script to do it, but I may do it in the near future to help people implement their custom icons. I'll bump it up on my todo list. Thanks for asking!

Peter</canvas></canvas>

Swapping Icon Colors, replied by badenoch

badenoch — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:20:07 +0000

Okay... The script works for me exactly as intended. Nice work.

Since I alread have very little red on my screen in my normal workflow, I've tried to get in and make the red icon appear only for the unread case and a desaturated/gray version for the read case. Otherwise, the red draws my eye to that tab all the time.. bla bla... anal retentive... bla bla... :)

The custom custom gray icon I made works fine when I base 64 encode it and plug it into the script. On the other hand, no matter what I do, I can't replace the blue icon. Any ideas if this is a favicon caching issue or is the blue(unread) icon coming from somewhere not so obvious as the red(read) icon in the script?

Bug: Not counting inbox unread, but a label, replied by leopolly

leopolly — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:13:43 +0000

so far, so good...