AmarokPidgin

To view the README in html visit http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~ksmith/AmarokPidgin.html

Now Listening for Pidgin
Version 0.2 - February 2009

Description:
A plugin for Amarok 1 and 2 that updates your Pidgin status message with what you are currently listening too.

If you want to update your Gaim status message, look for the AmarokGaim package.

Dependencies:
* Amarok (Tested on Amarok 1.4.10 or Amarok 2.0-SVN-Neon Jan 14 2009)
* Pidgin with D-Bus support (Tested on Pidgin 2.5.2)
* Python with D-Bus support (Tested on Python 2.5.2 (Should also work with
Python 2.4))
* DCOP client (If using Amarok 1. Tested on KDE 3.5.10)
* Optionally depends on chardet for better character
decoding. [http://chardet.feedparser.org/]

Changelog:
* Version 0.2.1 (03/03/2009)
- Executible bit was not switched on! So could not install in Amarok 1.
* Version 0.2 (11/02/2009)
- Your Buddy Icon can now be set to the currently playing song's album cover. Set *cover_icon* to true in the config file to enable.
- Made Media status type "tune". To update:
+ Stop AmarokPidgin in Amarok
+ Delete Media status in Pidgin
+ Start AmarokPidgin in Amarok
- New variables $rating and $score.
* Version 0.1.9 (16/05/2008)
- New variables: $year, $nowPlaying, $lyricsURL, $lyrics. Based on a patch
by Hieu Hoang.
- Variable Map. Based on work by Ryan Davis.
- Seems to work with Pidgin 2.4.0 now.
- Media status is of type Avaliable now by default.
* Version 0.1.8 (09/02/2008)
- Can use chardet library to decode strings.
- Testing of the new decoding routine thanks to David Partain.
- Fixed bug with status not returning to Media.
- Quick hack to prevent crashes on debugging output.
* Version 0.1.7 (02/08/2007)
- Closes script when Amarok sends SIGTERM. (Thanks to Kiyoshi Murata)
- Only media status is updated. No changing status anymore on song change.
- Pausing only changes status if status is on Media. (Thanks to Vasilis
Vasaitis)
* Version 0.1.6 (27/05/2007)
- Changed project name to AmarokPidgin
- Updated codebase to use purple. With thanks to the following contributors:
* Tony Bassette
* Thomas Bird
* Luigi Capriotti
* Version 0.1.5 (05/04/2007)
- Can now change nick instead of status message.
- Updates to unicode handling.
- Updates status type if necessary (Thanks to Vasilis Vasaitis)
* Version 0.1.4 (20/11/2006)
- Fixed a bug with misbehaving kdialogs. (Thanks to Kartik Mohta)
- Now changes Gaim's status back too default when script closes.
- Updates status if a song is playing when the script starts.
* Version 0.1.3 (14/11/2006)
- Now can block expletives in status message.
- Fixed a bug when reading in the configuration file.
* Version 0.1.2 (02/11/2006)
- Fixed unicode strings bug. (Thanks too Tim Su)
- Added basic configuration
* Version 0.1.1 (30/10/2006)
- Forgot to comment out logging =/
* Version 0.1 (25/10/2006)
- Initial Release