Here is a nice way to show current tickets on the desktop... using GeekTool of course :
curl -s -k https://projects.tynsoe.org/projects/geektool3/report/1|sed -n -e '/class=\"ticket\"/N;//N;//N;//N;s/.*\#\([0-9]*\).*title=\"View ticket\"[^>]*>\([^<]*\)<.*/\1 \2/p'|sort