2015/04/09

Cinnamon Applet - Stack Overflow Questions Notifier

A Linux Mint Cinnamon Applet that checks Stack Overflow site and shows a notification popup when new questions (with one or several tags) are posted.

The applet is posted under the spices section of the Cinnamon site, on its own project page. There you can find release information like bug fixes and new features. Is also posted on the Stack Apps site.

You can find the code on github. The code is licensed under the MIT License (MIT).

Installation

On your Cinnamon based Linux Mint distro:

  1. Right click on your panel, click Add applets to the panel
  2. Click on Get more online tab
  3. Find Stackoverflow Questions Notifier, right click and Mark for installation
  4. Once installed add it to the panel
  5. Right click on the applet icon, click Configure, set the tags you're interested in and the frequency time, defaults values are: c, java, bash, javascript for tags and 5 minutes for time

2 comments:

  1. I'd love to read a post on how to create a minimal applet for Cinnamon. There is very few documentation on the subject

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