Re: PATCH: Load and display gaim aliases

[Christopher Orr <chris protactin co uk>]

Hi,

On 04/10/04 07:16, Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi - I've attached a patch that allows beagle to read and display
> aliases from gaim's buddy list file. It currently reads the buddy list
> upon the first demand for an alias, and will reuse the buddy list as
> long as it remains up-to-date (it uses FileSystemEventMonitor to watch
> blist.xml). If blist.xml is modified in any way (ie any event is
> generated involving it), the list is re-read. Unfortunately, I haven't
> yet figured out how to re-render upon changes in aliases, as aliases are
> parsed upon display rather than indexing. But they do change upon the
> next search (so search for something, change the alias and it will be
> indexed, search again and the new alias will be used).

Excellent.  Thanks, it works nicely.  However, I use Gaim's 
meta-contacts and have the contact aliased, not the individual buddies. 
 e.g. my blist.xml mainly consists of entries such as this:

<contact alias="Martyn">
  <buddy account="me example com" proto="prpl-msn">
    <name>martyn example net</name>
  </buddy>
  <buddy account="protactin" proto="prpl-yahoo">
    <name>yahoomartyn</name>
  </buddy>
</contact>

Being able to extract the contact alias from that would be nice.  I may 
take a look at the code again later as it doesn't look like it should be 
too much extra effort.. I think.

Thanks,
Chris