SKopete
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SuperKaramba interface to Kopete. Intended to diplay a subset of your most important contacts on the desktop.
Note: The first time it runs, it will show all online contacts. Once you run the config dialog and click OK, it will only show the contacts you have selected to be monitored.
REQUIREMENTS:
- KDE >= 3.5.0
- SK >= 0.37
- Python >= 2.4
- PyQt >= 3.14
- PyKDE (Optional): Only tested with PyKDE from the kdebindings module. Gentooers please use the (kde-base/pyde-3.5.0 ebuild)
- kttsd (Optional): Enables speaking out of notifications
FEATURES:
- Displays the Kopete contact list on the desktop. Support automatic and configurable positioning/resizing
- Displayed contacts are configurable
- Has the buddy pounce/notification feature. See screenshot of config dialog
- Has basic Kopete controls (Online, Offline, Away and Start Chat)
- Indicates basic presence status (online, offline and away) for all contacts
- Resource (dcop calls) usage is independent of number of contacts
- For theme developers. I have built on the SKoot API to create basic layout management and event dispatching classes. They are independent of SKopete (see skopete_gui.py). If there's interest, I'll post a link to the API docs. Similarly the communication with Kopete is in a independent backend (kopete.py)
USAGE:
- Ensure Kopete is running
- In the config dialog, you can specify which contacts should be monitored, and also whether to display offline contacts
- By default SKopete, automatically resizes and repositions itself as contacts go online/offline. If you want it to stay in place, choose the manual layout policy in the Look&Feell section of the config dialog
- You can select custom photos as well a notifications and pounces for all contacts in the Buddies section of the config dialog.
- If you make any changes to the contact list in Kopete, you should reload SKopete via the right click menu
CAVEATS:
- If you have a non-english KDE desktop and no PyKDE, contact status updates will take O(n) queries
- Uses undocumented/unnamed Kopete DCOP interfaces.
- Resource (dcop calls) usage is O(n) in number of accounts you have
- Only tested with the MSN and Yahoo protocols, feedback on other protocols is welcome.
- Popup menu icons won't show if you don't have PyKDE, this is limitation of SuperKaramba, that I don't care enough to work around. One possible, (untested) workaround is to unzip the .skz file and run the theme using the .theme file
TROUBLESHOOTING
- Ensure you satisy all the REQUIREMENTS from above
- Is Kopete running?
- If you have enabled PyKDE in the config dialog, please try disabling it first, as PyKDE seems to cause a lot of bugs.
- In order to help me debug it, please run superkaramba in a terminal like so:
superkaramba skopete.skz > skopete-log 2>&1
Post the top 20 lines from the file skopete-log
13 years ago
ver 1.3.1
- Patch to add support for pykde >= 3.16.0
ver 1.3.0
- Added support for away/available messages
ver 1.2.10
- Added support for Gadu-Gadu
ver 1.2.9
- Fixed IRC bug with kopete 0.12
ver 1.2.8
- Fixed (I hope) problems with IRC contacts
ver 1.2.7
- The subprocess.Popen.communicate() method is not signal safe, added a workaround. For those of you that get 'Interrupted system call' errors on running SKopete in a terminal, this release should be of help. If you continue to get them, try installing the latest PyKDE and enabling PYKDE for DCOP calls in the config dialog.
- Patched so that the above error doesn't prevent the config dialog from loading.
ver 1.2.6
- Fixed memory leak caused by incorrect use of PyKDE for DCOP calls. This will only have affected you if you enabled PyKDE for DCOP calls in the config dialog
ver 1.2.5
- Display pics are now centered if they are smaller than the configured picture size
- Added localization support via KLocale. If you have a non-english desktop and a working PyKDE, you should upgrade to this release
ver 1.2.4
- Fixed bug that was causing all contacts to be displayed, not just monitored contacts. Bug was introduced in the last release, by an indentation error of all things.
ver 1.2.3
- Switched to using KDE File chooser dialog
- Squashed a couple of bugs in the custom pic display logic
- Coded an ugly hack to achieve correct online status detection on non-english systems. I would appreciate testing of this.
- Moved to using svn and eric3 for development
ver 1.2.2
- Fixed bug where contacts status was not being correctly detected on a non-english KDE installation. Unfortunately, this makes PyKDE a requirement.
- Coded workaround to have display pictures scaled smoothly.
ver 1.2.1
- Added preliminary unicode support. This really needs testing as I don't have any contacts with non ascii characters in their display names, and I can test only so many cases by manual modification
ver 1.2.0
- Added a config option to allow manual positioning, by popular demand. Since I don't use this feature, it hasn't been tested extensively. Bug reports are welcome
- Added the ability to set a custom display picture for a contact. Again bug reports are welcome.
- Also changed the config dialog to display scaled instead of cropped pictures
ver 1.1.2
- Added a config option to toggle the use of PyKDE for DCOP calls, as people seem to be having trouble with it. It is disabled by default. Enable it for a speed-up.
ver 1.1.1
- Changed pidof kopete to ps -C kopete -o pid= as some distros (fedora) don't have pidof in the users PATH
ver 1.1.0
- Implemented the DCOP calls in PyKDE (if available). This will make the loading of the contact list much faster.
- Fixed a bug that was causing one contact (the last in the list not to be loaded)
ver 1.0.4
- Fixed addressbook contacts not displaying bug. Also changed logic for detection of self contact.
ver 1.0.3
- Code cleanups/bug fixes
ver 1.0.2
- Fixed to be compatible with PyQt versions >= 3.14
ver 1.0.1
- Added code to handle (I hope) contacts whose display names have special characters
ver 1.0.0
- Version bump to stable, since I've received no bug reports
13 years ago
ver 1.3.1
- Patch to add support for pykde >= 3.16.0
ver 1.3.0
- Added support for away/available messages
ver 1.2.10
- Added support for Gadu-Gadu
ver 1.2.9
- Fixed IRC bug with kopete 0.12
ver 1.2.8
- Fixed (I hope) problems with IRC contacts
ver 1.2.7
- The subprocess.Popen.communicate() method is not signal safe, added a workaround. For those of you that get 'Interrupted system call' errors on running SKopete in a terminal, this release should be of help. If you continue to get them, try installing the latest PyKDE and enabling PYKDE for DCOP calls in the config dialog.
- Patched so that the above error doesn't prevent the config dialog from loading.
ver 1.2.6
- Fixed memory leak caused by incorrect use of PyKDE for DCOP calls. This will only have affected you if you enabled PyKDE for DCOP calls in the config dialog
ver 1.2.5
- Display pics are now centered if they are smaller than the configured picture size
- Added localization support via KLocale. If you have a non-english desktop and a working PyKDE, you should upgrade to this release
ver 1.2.4
- Fixed bug that was causing all contacts to be displayed, not just monitored contacts. Bug was introduced in the last release, by an indentation error of all things.
ver 1.2.3
- Switched to using KDE File chooser dialog
- Squashed a couple of bugs in the custom pic display logic
- Coded an ugly hack to achieve correct online status detection on non-english systems. I would appreciate testing of this.
- Moved to using svn and eric3 for development
ver 1.2.2
- Fixed bug where contacts status was not being correctly detected on a non-english KDE installation. Unfortunately, this makes PyKDE a requirement.
- Coded workaround to have display pictures scaled smoothly.
ver 1.2.1
- Added preliminary unicode support. This really needs testing as I don't have any contacts with non ascii characters in their display names, and I can test only so many cases by manual modification
ver 1.2.0
- Added a config option to allow manual positioning, by popular demand. Since I don't use this feature, it hasn't been tested extensively. Bug reports are welcome
- Added the ability to set a custom display picture for a contact. Again bug reports are welcome.
- Also changed the config dialog to display scaled instead of cropped pictures
ver 1.1.2
- Added a config option to toggle the use of PyKDE for DCOP calls, as people seem to be having trouble with it. It is disabled by default. Enable it for a speed-up.
ver 1.1.1
- Changed pidof kopete to ps -C kopete -o pid= as some distros (fedora) don't have pidof in the users PATH
ver 1.1.0
- Implemented the DCOP calls in PyKDE (if available). This will make the loading of the contact list much faster.
- Fixed a bug that was causing one contact (the last in the list not to be loaded)
ver 1.0.4
- Fixed addressbook contacts not displaying bug. Also changed logic for detection of self contact.
ver 1.0.3
- Code cleanups/bug fixes
ver 1.0.2
- Fixed to be compatible with PyQt versions >= 3.14
ver 1.0.1
- Added code to handle (I hope) contacts whose display names have special characters
ver 1.0.0
- Version bump to stable, since I've received no bug reports
Support-Box
SKopete is part of KDE Themes and Extensions, which is supported by the following people:
More Karamba & Superkaramba from kovidgoyal:
Other Karamba & Superkaramba:
motyR
15 years ago
Configuring SKopete...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "configure.py", line 279, in ?
w = ConfigDialog(contacts)
File "configure.py", line 124, in __init__
Configure_Skopete.__init__(self,parent, name, modal, fl)
File "/home/moty/down/32677-skopete-1.0.1.skz/configure_skopete.py", line 1066, in __init__
TypeError: argument 1 of QSizePolicy() has an invalid type
and another one, when ever trying to reload the theme it allways appear on the right side of the screen even if i moved it to another place...
any way i writing this words in hope u can fix this cause this is a very useable theme for SK:)
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
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motyR
15 years ago
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
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motyR
15 years ago
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
The theme is designed to automatically position and resize itself as contacts go online/offline. You can change the positioning policy from the config dialog...though ofcourse it isn't working for you.
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xxtobi
15 years ago
The plugin itself works fine (switching kopete from offline to online etc.), but without the contacts showing it's quite useless.
Any ideas how I could access the config dialog? Or is there a way to add contacts manually to some config file?
Thanks, xxtobi
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
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xxtobi
15 years ago
1. I can see only one of my online contacts in SKopete, although several of my contacts are online.
2. Upon reloading SKopete ("Reload" in context menu) it throws an error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tobi/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/32677-skopete-1.0.1.skz/skopete.py", line 470, in widgetUpdated
File "/home/tobi/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/32677-skopete-1.0.1.skz/skopete.py", line 443, in update
File "/home/tobi/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/32677-skopete-1.0.1.skz/skopete.py", line 314, in sync
File "/home/tobi/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/32677-skopete-1.0.1.skz/skopete.py", line 200, in __init__
KeyError: ICQMyself
Now I myself appear in the list twice, Karamba eats up 15% of my CPU until I close SKopete. ICQ is offline at that moment (appears in error message).
To come back to my original problem, the config dialog is not accessible in any of these states.
System is Suse10.0 with KDE3.5
Let me know if you have any idea. If not I'll give up, seems to be quite weird...
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
Thanks
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xxtobi
15 years ago
Anyway, I kind of "solved" the problem now: Since v1.0.2 I can access the config dialog which listed my MSN (not ICQ!) identity as a buddy. So I removed myself from the monitored contacts and now the crash-error reported above is gone.
Very strange, hope this helps if someone else has the same problem.
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
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xxtobi
15 years ago
Just kidding, of course I don't have myself as a contact in Kopete - just SKopete lists my MSN screen name as a buddy, don't ask me why.
If I don't exclude it from the SKopete buddies, SKopete crashes with the "ICQMyself" error reported above.
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kovidgoyal
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f1dave
15 years ago
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f1dave
15 years ago
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete.py", line 470, in widgetUpdated
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete.py", line 436, in update
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete_gui.py", line 156, in update
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete_gui.py", line 131, in update
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete.py", line 346, in update
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/skopete.py", line 298, in sync
File "/home/meacod01/Karamba/32677-skopete-1.0.0.skz/kopete.py", line 344, in updateStatus
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py", line 134, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/sre.py", line 227, in _compile
raise error, v # invalid expression
error: unexpected end of regular expression
The contact list seems to sort of be half-loaded, but thats about it... there's no real functionality about it either.
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
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PLowran
15 years ago
Also the IM is DOPE I use Trilliam 3Pro and it has the Image Feature, so not to say you are copying dont get me wrong, you did a great job
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kovidgoyal
15 years ago
Thats the cpu/mem v2 plugin for aero aio that I wrote.
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Superstoned
15 years ago
looks cool, tough ;-)
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15 years ago
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