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michaelzoech / pyimc

a Python script to control Pidgin and Skype via command-line
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show unread chat messages #5

Open michaelzoech opened 14 years ago

michaelzoech commented 14 years ago

action to open chat window with oldest unread messages. maybe this could be extended by showing a dmenu of all conversations, if their are more unread conversations.

michaelzoech commented 14 years ago

it seems that libpurple/pidgin does not allow us to get a list of unread conversations. pidgin-hotkeys has this functionality and exports it via shortcut. maybe we could do the following: action to check skype unread messages, if there are none and hotkeys is installed, simulate hotkey press and let pidgin open message.

anpieber commented 13 years ago

sounds a little big extremely hacky to me :)

michaelzoech commented 13 years ago

any ideas .... other than implementing a pidgin plugin for exporting the needed functionality via dbus?

anpieber commented 13 years ago

I know we've discussed that a while ago, but TBH this doesn't sound bad to me. Basically we simply have to fork the pidgin-hotkeys plugin and adapt it a little bit to our needs, don't we?

michaelzoech commented 13 years ago

imo forking isn't the right thing to do here. 1. we would have to watch the other plugin for changes and incorporate them into our plugin everytime. 2. if we do this, there may be more things we want to export in the future than simply open the oldest unread message.

imo a new plugin would be the right approach here