John Winter wrote me recently to let me know about a GMail notification program he has written for Linux. He modeled his effort after Google’s notifier. John’s code is written in Python and uses libGMail. Source code is therefore available. Plus, Python rocks.
Source: Gmail Notify for Linux

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December 14th, 2004 @5:28 am
I hope is working on Gnome.
That screenshot is from kde.