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 ...