Comments on: Setting Pidgin Status with Python or How to Waste Perfectly Good Saturday

By: miljan

miljan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Wow, I am more than surprised how many people are finding this useful! :)
Thanx! :)

By: Michel

Michel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:41:11 +0000

This could be useful to me.

I want pidgin to show where I am. @Home, @office, @customerX, @customerY, etc.

I saw some dudes that rewrite the statuses.XML file, but this seems a lot better.

I tolled my computer how to link the IP address/gateway/domain to a location but wasn’t sure how to bring that to a pidgin status.

Thanks for wasting a Saturday morning on this.

By: Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:07:07 +0000

Hi HyperHacker,

where is your problem with BlueProximity? It should do what you want with no python and little shell scripting knowledge…
I know BlueProximity can do that because I wrote it :-)

Bye
Lars

By: HyperHacker

HyperHacker — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:42:39 +0000

Hey, this is actually useful. Set it to choose different messages depending on time of day, and call it from BlueProximity… it automatically switches to “at work” or “asleep” or whichever when I leave.

…at least it would, if I bothered to learn enough Python to do that. :-p

By: anilalur

anilalur — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:33:10 +0000

Next time I feel my weekend is boring, I am adding ASCII art to the status n animate it :)

By: miljan

miljan — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:47:44 +0000

Welcome ;)

By: Akash

Akash — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:21:11 +0000

awesome dude. thanks :D

By: Lynoure Braakman

Lynoure Braakman — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:27:38 +0000

Thanks for the script.

I tend to like to keep track of where my quotes are coming from, thus I changed it to exclude lines that are commented out with #.
You can find my patch at:
http://lynoure.org/pidgin_status_comments.patch

By: Ben Scholzen

Ben Scholzen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:36:36 +0000

Hey, sorry for not answering you, but how should I’ve known that you’ve written here? ;) Probably you want to mail me?

By: miljan

miljan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:50:49 +0000

Hello Ben, thanx for dropping by. :)

Weekends can be quite long sometimes. Perfect for this small ideas we get from time to time. :)

BTW, I am moving to Germany (Frankfurt/M) in 10 days. Any suggestions what could I expect would be more than grateful. :)

I already have a picture (I’ve been there two times already) but it is always good to hear it from “locals”. :)