Re: Issue 139 in pidgin-musictracker: Finch Support

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Comment #3 on issue 139 by wemolohtrab: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

Even if I have to load Pidgin to configure it first, Finch support would be
great.

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Comment #4 on issue 139 by ivankovnatsky: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

I noticed this too, using LAST.FM API 2.0

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Comment #5 on issue 139 by ivankovnatsky: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

moreover I can't even add it too Finch plugins

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Updates:
Labels: Patch-Needed

Comment #6 on issue 139 by jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

> moreover I can't even add it too Finch plugins

This is expected as the musictracker plugin is marked as using the GTK GUI,
so finch won't try to load it (as that can't work).

The way to fix this is to split the plugin into two, one to do the
configuration and one to do the actual work. But that's a fair amount of
effort...

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Comment #7 on issue 139 by zarahemlite: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

+1 for this functionality--I don't know how to code or I'd do it for ya ;-)

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Comment #8 on issue 139 by jakerodn...@gmail.com: Finch Support
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/issues/detail?id=139

It was actually pretty easy to get musictracker to work in finch (with a
little help from debug mode and gdb):

- in actions.c:
- comment out the line "pidgin_blist_update_plugin_actions();"
- in musictracker.c:
- comment out the whole "static PidginPluginUiInfo ui_info" definition
- change "PIDGIN_PLUGIN_TYPE" to "NULL"
- change "&ui_info" to "NULL"

You should then be able to compile and install normally.

Move or symlink the installed musictracker.so into your lib/purple-2
directory and you should be good to go.

Of course the configuration GUI is completely inaccessible now, so it's BYO
relevant nodes from prefs.xml from Pidgin.