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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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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

I am a ​non-avid blogger!

Open Tickets Assigned to Me

3.0.0 milestone tickets:

#3267

Replace PluginPref API with Request API

Patches Needing Improvement milestone tickets:

#10897

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

Patches welcome milestone tickets:

#10252

Edit Icon Theme - Restart to default after pidgin closed

#12630

Official Plugin edit list and contact theme

milestone tickets:

#8692

purple_conversation_present doesn't seem to work

#17421

Datestamp plugin (feature request)

#17422

Datestamp plugin (feature request)