Drew Burden

Sean Egan posted an interesting news item last week discussing upcoming UI changes due out in Pidgin 2.1.0, which was scheduled to be released the next day but they apparently couldn’t get a few bugs worked out. I like the new conversation window design with the “Infopane” and I’m glad the developers decided to include a graphical notifications feature in Pidgin by default. From the post:

The “Sounds” settings in Preferences will become more general
“Notifications” settings. We’ll expand the list of events to match
Guificiations’ extensive list of events, and each event will offer two
ways of notifying you of them: sound and popup.

I’ve also decided myself to try and work out a plugin for the libpurple core. Basically, I just want to be able to specify a Purple profile path, for example if I’m on a dual boot computer, running Linux and would like Pidgin to use the .purple folder in my Windows partition. It seems simple enough but this is my first shot at any sort of real programming project. I’ll have to get the book I ordered last year back from Nick and read up on how to make plugins, and/or change likely hardcoded parameters in the libpurple code with a plugin. I’m calling the plugin “Greenbird” for now, which was the name for uBartr but that never really got off the ground and what the hell, I may sell the name to Common Tech to replace their myAgora moniker.

Since this blog post is quickly spiraling off on a tangent, I’ll stop there and get to readin’. Or something.