"Office Hours" plugin for pidgin/purple - published & linked.

[Kyrian]

No response so far to the previous posting, oh well :-(
> So, I saw the need to write a plugin for Pidgin that you can enable to
> automatically log you out of your accounts if you are listed as 'Away'
> and it's outside your configured 'Office Hours'.
>
>    
...

Another problem I have hit upon is that I am not quite sure how to 
inject comments saying 'automatically logged out by office hours plugin' 
into an open conversation/window, or make a pop-up saying that all 
active accounts have been logged out, which is necessary to fulfil the 
'principal of least astonishment' of the plugin's operation.

I think I've found enough docs to work it out via trial and error, but 
any hints would be appreciated.

Otherwise, it seems to work a treat, including its secondary goal of 
retaining open windows (so as not to lose conversation content without 
having to use the logging plugin), as Pidgin does not close windows 
automatically when you're logged out of an account with the Perl API, 
which I realise is an undocumented 'feature', and this plugin will rely 
on it continuing to be the case, or there to be some option to allow for 
it in future.
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#DevelopmentofThird-PartyPlugins
>    
I have now linked it to the above page, where it looked like it fit 
("Accounts and logs" section). I just created a simple Apache directory 
index type page with a header, it's not pretty but it will do for now:

http://www.orenet.co.uk/opensource/pidgin-oo/

K.

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