diff --git a/README b/README
index a3d3805..7b94998 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ vicious.widgets.mdir
     structure
   - takes the full path to the Maildir structure as an argument
 
+vicious.widgets.gmail
+  - provides count of new and subject of last e-mail in a Gmail inbox
+  - takes a table with Gmail login information as an argument
+
 vicious.widgets.entropy
   - provides available system entropy
   - takes the poolsize as an argument, or fallbacks to Linux 2.6
@@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ vicious.widgets.entropy
 vicious.widgets.org
   - provides agenda statistics for Emacs org-mode
   - takes a table with full paths to agenda files, that will be
-    included, as an argument
+    parsed, as an argument
 
 vicious.widgets.pacman
   - provides number of pending updates on Arch Linux
@@ -187,8 +191,12 @@ Format functions
 ----------------
 You can use a function instead of a string as the format parameter, so
 you are able to check the value returned by the widget type and change
-it. You can change the color of a widget, i.e. on low battery, or hide
-widgets when they return a certain value, or...
+it. You can change the color of the battery widget when it goes below
+a certain point, or hide widgets when they return a certain value,
+or...
+
+  - do not confuse this with just coloring the widget, in those cases
+    standard markup can be inserted into the format string
 
 The format function will get the widget as its first argument, and a
 table with the values otherwise inserted into the format string as its
@@ -264,6 +272,13 @@ Mbox widget
   - executed every 240 seconds, provides full path to the mbox as an
     argument
 
+Gmail widget
+  gmailwidget = widget({ type = 'textbox', name = 'gmailwidget' })
+  vicious.register(gmailwidget, vicious.widgets.gmail, 'Mail: ${count}', 600, {'user', 'pass'})
+
+  - executed every 10 minutes, provides a table with login information
+    as an argument, prepends "Mail: " to the returned value
+
 
 All other widgets are used in the same manner, read each widget you
 are interested in to see what data it returns. You can also use
diff --git a/gmail.lua b/gmail.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98fb40d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gmail.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+----------------------------------------------------------
+-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
+--  * Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian C. <anrxc_sysphere_org>
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+-- {{{ Grab environment
+local io = { popen = io.popen }
+local setmetatable = setmetatable
+local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
+-- }}}
+
+
+-- Gmail: provides count of new and subject of last e-mail in a Gmail inbox
+module("vicious.gmail")
+
+
+-- {{{ Gmail widget type
+local function worker(format, login)
+    -- Initialise tables
+    local mail = {
+        ["{count}"]   = "0",
+        ["{subject}"] = "N/A"
+    }
+
+    -- Todo: find a safer way to do this
+    local auth = login[1] .. ":" .. login[2]
+
+    -- Get info from the Gmail atom feed
+    local f = io.popen("curl --max-time 3 -fsu "..auth.." https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom")
+
+    -- Could be huge don't read it all at once, info we are after is at the top
+    for line in f:lines() do
+        mail["{count}"] = line:match("<fullcount>([%d]+)</fullcount>") or mail["{count}"]
+
+        -- Find subject tags
+        local title = line:match("<title>(.*)</title>")
+        -- If the subject changed then break out of the loop
+        if title ~= nil and  --    Ignore the feed title
+           title ~= "Gmail - Inbox for "..login[1].."@gmail.com" then
+               -- Spam sanitize the subject
+               title = helpers.escape(title)
+               -- Don't abuse the wibox, truncate, then store
+               mail["{subject}"] = helpers.truncate(title, 22)
+               -- By this point we have the count, it comes before
+               -- messages and always matches, at least 0
+               break
+        end
+    end
+    f:close()
+
+    return mail
+end
+-- }}}
+
+setmetatable(_M, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })
diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 807df4a..bf22918 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ require("vicious.wifi")
 require("vicious.mbox")
 require("vicious.mboxc")
 require("vicious.mdir")
+require("vicious.gmail")
 require("vicious.entropy")
 require("vicious.org")
 require("vicious.pacman")