URL Watcher Plugin
May 31, 2006, 10:50 pmWell, I read Julian’s blog entry about a link history for im clients, rather like those IRC users have been enjoying for years and I thought “Hey, that’d make a great Psi plugin. Now, if only Psi had plugin support.”. Of course, some moments later I remembered my Summer of Code project to write a plugin interface for Psi. I hastily implemented a few more functions, fixed those I’d recently broken and implemented my first semi-useful Psi plugin. Yes, it’s basic. No you can’t close the window, you’ll never get it back. No, the plugin doesn’t know the user’s display name and just shows the jid. On the other hand though, no, this is not a mockup, it’s working exactly as presented below. So, I give you a screenshot of an early alpha of the URL Watcher plugin for Psi.
3 Responses to “URL Watcher Plugin”
Very cool. Just be sure to read some of the “minor details” in my description that other people ignored–I think anything that can decrease the number of URLs in the list automatically will greatly improve the usefulness of this window.
Glad to see others are interested. 
Yep, it’s very basic at the moment, I was mostly coding it as a proof-of-concept and to showcase plugins in Psi. I do think there’s a lot going for it, although there is a question of whether it’s just URLs it’s applicable too, perhaps a similar system, with context linking as you suggest, for bookmarking chat points would be even more useful. So someone says something I need to check back about later, maybe a url, maybe a TODO, etc, I hit my bookmark key combo and it gets inserted into the list. I do intend Psi to have a bookmarkable history before /too/ long (natively) and this seems like a logical progression from that, to have a two levels of bookmarks, one incase you want it again, and one you must revisit.
Yay you! Now get me plugins to output chats as XHTML pages, voice commands, and ICBM control.