Option to change IRC nickname automatically on Away

[etrusco]

It would be nice to have the option to change IRC nickname automatically on status change. Surprisingly there's not even a plugin that implements :-(

[deryni]

This request is best implemented as a plugin. Currently we as Pidgin developers are not interested in implementing it. This ticket remains open as an invitation for someone to write a plugin fulfilling the request.

In many channels this is considered poor form as it is very noisy. I think it unlikely that pidgin will ever get such a feature though a plugin could certainly do this if it wanted to.

[davereid]

I have my Pidgin away settings so it doesn't auto-away me. I'd like to somehow change my nick if I manually set my status as away. Looking forward to a plugin for this.

[renatosilva]

You can set your status with /away and that's done in the background when you use the away status in the global status list. Clients can perform a /whois for checking that.

If it's boring to check one's status with /whois, that's a client issue. As for Pidgin, I think it could use a gray color or something, see the away on demand suggestion in #14743. That bug is related because it was caused by a "periodic who" afaik willing to keep track of everyone's status.

[renatosilva]

The ​IRC Away plugin implements this request.

[renatosilva]

Note about version 2012.3.2.Testing: adding an IRC account while plugin is loaded will cause Pidgin to crash.

[etrusco]

Thanks for implementing it, and sorry for the delay in replying.

The plugin works in 2.20.1, but I can reproduce the crash. At first I thought the crash was WRT irc in general, since it was the first time I tried on Win7 64bit, and also disabling the plugin without restarting still triggered the crash. BTW the option doesn't appear in the IRC account options (after enabling the plugin) until I restart Pidgin.

[renatosilva]

Thanks for the feedback.

[renatosilva]

Oh wait, 2.20.1???

[etrusco]

Sorry, I meant 2.10.1, of course.

[renatosilva]

Replying to etrusco:

BTW the option doesn't appear in the IRC account options (after enabling the plugin) until I restart Pidgin.

It shows as the last field here, then when Pidgin is restarted it shows in the usual place.

[soymilrayita]

Thanks for the implementation Renato. I am using IRC away at work, and I have issues whenever I try to change my nick to -away while having SIPE (Office communicator plugin) active, Pidgin either crashes or says I'm trying to change to an invalid nick. If I deactivate the communicator account, the plugin works just fine.

[CP1832]

Renato:

Checking this (​http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~renatosilva/+junk/pidgin-ircaway/files) url, I can see that there is a new version of IRC away. Am I right? How can I build a dll out of it to test it?

[renatosilva]

There's no functionality changes.

[clerver_fox]

ircaway.so compiled on 64bit Fedora 16 (3.2.9-2.fc16.x86_64)

[renatosilva]

Please disregard my previous builds completely

[renatosilva]

IRC Away 2012.3.17 should fix the crash when adding new accounts, and work properly. Feedback is welcome.

[renatosilva]

Making old build unavailable

[renatosilva]

Making old build unavailable

[renatosilva]

Making unavailable (moved to Launchpad)

[renatosilva]

Making unavailable (moved to Launchpad)

[renatosilva]

Making unavailable (moved to Launchpad)