A few weeks ago, Mark Shuttleworth announced the Unity WebApps concept. Personally, I love the concept; however, I noticed that there was support for gmail, but I couldn’t find support for the RoundCube webmail client I use on my own servers. To remedy this, I decided to write a plugin for roundcube that adds Unity WebApp support to your self-hosted RoundCube instance.

Features:

  •     Allows you to go straight to composing a new message or viewing your address book through the launcher or the HUD.
  •     Adds HUD Entries for each one of your mailbox folders.
  •     Adds MessagingEntries for every folder with unread messages.
  •     Shows a Unity notification when you recieve a new message.
  •     Shows the number of total unread messages, across all folders, on the Unity Launcher icon.

You can find the latest version on the Launchpad project:
Project Page:  Launchpad Project
Plugin:  Download

Note: Currently the plugin is only supported with RoundCube 0.7.2+, so it may or may not work for older versions.

Known Issues:

  • I have also noticed that occasionally, Firefox 14.0.1 (only seen on the latest version) will just crash the first time accessing the page; restarting Firefox seems to resolve the issue. I haven't discovered what is causing this and it doesn't appear to extend to Chromium.

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