Well today I tried to make a little widget for desktopx that would show how many unread emails I have on my email account. So I start looking around the web for some source that would enlighten me on how to access gmail. The best source I found was in a konfabulator object (which I can't get to work in the windows version...so the source might be sour grapes all together). I opened up the widget to find out what makes it tick. A javascript file and two php files along with the main konfab xml file. I don't understand php at all, and I have little intention of learning it right now, but I looked around in the php files. It turns out that the php files are what actually access gmail and get your email count. But I haven't found away to get it to work yet. I guess I am just SOL right now.