Informant

Informant is a set of utilities for keeping a user informed of events. It consists of an informant, which is the means by which the user is alerted to the occurrence of the said event, and a number of sources that "whisper" an alert to the informant when the event occurs. Currently, the informant is implemented as a GNOME panel applet or a stand alone GTK program. When an alert has been whispered by a source, the text of the applet or GTK program changes from "No alerts" to "New Alerts". The user can click on the text and a window will pop up containing a list of the alerts received and the time they were received. The sources provided are the original CVSToys source, an email filter source and a daemonized version of it, an RSS feed source (relying on TouRSSt), a Web page change monitoring source, and a simple command line source that can be called from anything else.