Silly Eion Things » Pidgin http://eion.robbmob.com/blog Eion's blog about nerdy internet things Thu, 17 May 2012 04:19:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Summer of Code 2012 http://eion.robbmob.com/blog/2012/05/17/summer-of-code-2012/ http://eion.robbmob.com/blog/2012/05/17/summer-of-code-2012/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 04:19:59 +0000 Eion Robb http://eion.robbmob.com/blog/?p=113 I’m proud to announce that I’m a mentor in this year’s Google Summer of Code. I’m mentoring Sanket, who’s going to be writing a plugin for Pidgin/libpurple that will record statistics and send them to a server for display. Kinda like Adium’s Sparkle stats.

I’m really excited about his project and I’m really keen to see some of the stats that come out of it. It’ll be great to know how many people are using my plugins for one ;) but will also be good to see what operating systems Pidgin runs on primarily. There’s already been a request from the Instantbird guys about getting stats of popular protocols based on system locales, which is going to be a pretty cool metric to see :)

There’s already been a lot of great discussion between Sanket and I about what stats will be useful in terms of CPU and operating system. Do you have any thoughts on what stats you’d like to see out of Pidgin?

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Let me know if you’re in the beta at the moment (ie, have you managed to sign into Steam from your mobile) as I’d be keen to hear your experiences with it. :)

Edit: The Steam plugin for Pidgin has been connecting to the mobile API for a while now; Steam no longer needs to be running to be able to chat with your friends :)

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If you’re using winpidgin, I’d suggest you download and enable the pidgin-win32-non-bmp plugin to prevent remote crashes.

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