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.
