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I am Sadrul Habib Chowdhury. I work mostly on Finch (or the-application-previously-known-as-gaim-text) and libgnt.

Me

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• aim: adilshc
• jabber: imadil@…
• email: sadrul@…

Wishlist

Here's a list of stuff I want to have in Finch, libgnt, Pidgin and libpurple:

• Finch
  • A plugin like markerline to mark the last viewed text in a chat/im.
  • A way to group conversation windows. This can probably be done using a plugin.
  • A 'Get Info' button in the authorization-request dialog. Done (the information is automatically retrieved and displayed)

• libgnt
  • Split input strings to make sure everything works smoothly over a very slow connection. Done
  • A file selector. This will help implementing the file/folder selection in libpurple's request api. Done
  • Multiline textboxes.
  • Separator in trees.
  • Create a UI from an XML description. For example, "<vbox><label>Hello World</label><button>OK</button></vbox>" will generate a nice little dialog box. Done
  • A spell-checker. It would probably use Enchant, and be a plugin/external library, instead of built into libgnt.
  • An image-viewer. Perhaps use aalib for this. From a brief look, I think Designing a new driver is the way to go.

• Pidgin
  • Move the history plugin into libpurple.

• libpurple
  • Allow executing some perl/tcl etc codes using the respective plugin loaders without requiring to write a plugin. patch

If you find any of these interesting and want to implement them, feel free to contact me.

Other Stuff

If you like finch/libgnt, you may also like:

• python-gnt: python bindings for libgnt
  • gx: a gnt frontend for xmms2
• gntodo: a todo manager

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Open Tickets Assigned to Me

milestone 3.0.0

#3267

Replace PluginPref API with Request API

milestone Patches Needing Improvement

#10897

"View Log" (History) does not support Conference Chats (Multi-user chats)

milestone Patches Needing Review

#12169

Finch does not resize correctly (irssi)

#12208

Finch Irssi window manager draws conversation window at wrong X coordinate

#12676

libgnt arrow keys not working properly under urxvt

#12820

separate color option for gchat "do not disturb" vs "away"

milestone Patches welcome

#4308

Finch on windows

#5327

Finch shows a suboptimal set of statuses

#8748

Finch tab support

#9285

Finch Mouse support slight enhancements...

#9961

no XMPP service discovery in Finch

#10252

Edit Icon Theme - Restart to default after pidgin closed

#12630

Official Plugin edit list and contact theme

milestone 2.10.1

#14620

Allow disabling of vv support per account

milestone None

#2772

"Conversation Colors" plugin breaks the displaying of a sent image in an AIM direct IM

#4934

Allow user to expand all windows simulaneously

#4935

highlight chat name a unique color/boldness when your name is typed

#6449

man-page finch for russian language

#8576

Standardize Keyboard Shortcuts

#8692

purple_conversation_present doesn't seem to work

#9118

Finch: duplicated notification tabs for new mail

#9705

Finch crashes on accepting conference invitation

#10336

buddy icon opening in finch

#10870

LIBS in pidgin-2.6.4/finch/libgnt/Makefile should include -ldl and -lm

#11246

A relative path to change wm entry in .gtnrc

#11623

Add OTR support to Finch

#11994

finch notification system

#12189

Window width bug in finch when not using 80-character width

#12205

Finch sound gntsound.c PURPLE_SOUND_GOT_ATTENTION

#12448

Add different taskbar notifications for CHAT conv wrt PURPLE_MESSAGE_NICK

#12642

finch problem with connectbot Android with ALT key

#12644

Finch: Open ICQ-Buddy-Invations in Background

#12714

finch gets slow when resizing windows if it's been running for a while

#13086

Window does not resize/maximize back

#13119

finch keybindings keys shortcut hot

#13555

libngt segfaults frequently but after a random amount of time when google talk calls are in progress

#13738

finch crashes on quit

#14215

gnttree falls into an assertion loop on tab key in New IM dialog

#14460

finch disconnects from freenode's IRC a lot

#14709

using ncurses from a non-/usr/include directory doesn't update finch's .pc

#14796

finch sometimes spins CPU forever when manually IMing someone in AIM

#15007

Immediate Segfault on FreeBSD