Simple GitHub notification indicator designed for elementary OS Freya. It should work with Ubuntu 14.04 and its derivatives.
While the space in the notification area is limited, I have concluded that this application needs to be an indicator first (see future plans) nonetheless. The whole point of this idea to have an easy way to access your GitHub notification regardless of your choice of the browser. While there are some browser extensions (like github-notifier-firefox which I'm currently using) that basically do the same thing, I believe that anybody should be able to quickly access them regardless of their browser choice.
After some careful considerations and the input I got from the elementary Google+ community, I have decided that after I finish packaging the first version of this indicator, I'll look into re-creating this as a Vala application that will be integrated with the Online Accounts plug that's going to surpass this indicator implementation, which will probably (I can't guarantee that at the moment) still be avalable for distros other than elementary OS.
First, you'll need to run:
$ git clone https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/indicator-githubThen, you're going to have to generate a GitHub token.
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To do so, open up your settings.
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Navigate to
Personal access tokens. Once you're in there, click onGenerate new token. -
Select a name for your token (it doesn't really matter which name are you going to choose). In the
Select scopessection, everything should be unchecked exceptnotifications -
Click on
Generate token. -
Copy your token and paste it to the
tokenfile.
Final step:
$ python indicator-python.py
This program is licensed under GNU's GPL v3. Its full text is in the LICENSE file. The basic code logic was copied from alimox/indicator-github.