Comment 43 for bug 429395

I have a large modification of the indicator support at http://github.com/rephorm/libnotify-mozilla
(one of these days I'll learn how to use bzr).

One issue with the current indicator support is that a separate instance of indicator.py is run every few seconds. If the old one hasn't quit yet, a duplicate menu item appears. I tried to solve this by creating a fifo which indicator.py can connect to. Thunderbird just sends some 'show' and 'hide' messages through the fifo, keeping the indicator.py running in the bg.

I also changed it to only show indicators on new messages as the messaging menu wiki entry recommends. (I often have a lot of unread email and don't want a green icon showing all of the time).

Any way, if anyone wants to try it out, the link is above.