Improved Emesene & Pidgin Docky helpers

By , Published September 6, 2010

An Argentine reader by the name of Nicolas stopped by the OMG! Inbox! to spread word of his superbly improved Docky helpers for Emesene and Pidgin.

The refined Emesene helper now works with lastest version of the aforementioned application whilst also gaining the ability to display an dock icon appropriate to that of the set status .

Download

Nicolas’ helpfully over-hauled helpers can be downloaded  @

Installation

Installation is also relatively simple, just extract the .zip file downloaded above in to

  • /usr/share/dockmanager/scripts/

and restart Docky.

Nicolas has also created proposed merging his refinements with the main Docky branch so with any luck you’ll find these included by default not too long from now.

Gracias, Nicolas!

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  • http://mastropino.deviantart.com/ MastroPino

    Very very nice nicolas and thank you dood for the tip. I have only one question: why don’t link the dock-icon with the theme that pidgin is using?

  • http://twitter.com/nicolaide Nicolas

    Thanks for the support… I dont link the dock-icon with the theme of pidgin because i dont use a lot a pidgin and i dont use themes on it… If i install some themes then i look how to do it.
    Another important point is if the dbus of pidgin supports a way to get the pidgin theme… In this week im very busy, but in the next i try to play with this a little

    • Anonymous

      Thanks for doing this! I wrote the original Emesene docky helper, but simply ran out of time to support it because of uni work, plus I’ve stopped using Emesene. Gotta love open source.

      • http://www.nicolasespina.com.ar Nicolas Espina Tacchetti

        Thanks to you to “show the way” because i never work with DBus :P

        • Anonymous

          Yeah, it took some DBus changes in Emesene to get it to work, I loved it and hated it at the same time!

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/harveycabaguio Harvey

    AWN also has the same exact helpers I think.

    • http://twitter.com/nicolaide Nicolas

      I test the helpers in AWN a week ago and have some problems with the icons in the menu

      • http://twitter.com/mhr3 Michal Hruby

        Could you open a bug in Awn about that please?

      • https://launchpad.net/~albyrock87 Alberto

        It will be fixed soon, that was a little “bug” in DockManager’s python API :)

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/harveycabaguio Harvey

    Just use AWN. Its about to get all of Docky’s features like multiple docks and helpers. Its also had an indicator applet for a long time now.

    • http://feathertail.dreamwidth.org/ Tachyon Feathertail

      How about parabolic zoom, and the ability to drag-and-drop apps onto it without having to configure things?

      • http://www.google.com/profiles/harveycabaguio Harvey

        No parabolic zoom but you can drag and drop apps onto the dock. You can’t drag out though.

    • chris

      AWN has been slow and buggy for me. It’s also ugly as sin by default and takes lots of tinkering to make it look right.

    • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

      Docky just feels… hm *cleaner*

      I dunno, that might be just me though

  • http://feathertail.dreamwidth.org/ Tachyon Feathertail

    It seems to be /usr/share/docky/helpers on mine …

    • http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=Main_Page PsyberS

      This depends on the version of Docky you have installed. The latest PPA versions all use the DockManager API paths so the scripts can be shared with AWN as well.

      Also, there should be a local path at ~/.local/share/dockmanager/ to install scripts per-user.

  • Seventh Reign

    Is there a place to (re)download ‘all’ of Docky’s helpers? Even the ones installed by default.

    • http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=Main_Page PsyberS

      Just force re-install the package from apt, that will replace any overridden files.

  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    Whay Pidgin and Emesene and not Empathy. I tried the Empathy helper that somebody did on Launchpad, but I was never able to get it to work.

    • http://twitter.com/nicolaide Nicolas

      I dont use empathy… Sucks for me, so i spend my time to use the apps that i like. Look the code and try to make something but yourself… This is the power of the open source :D

      • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

        You are right, the only thing is I really don’t know where to start, since i’m only a Web developer, with so little python knowledge.

        • http://www.nicolasespina.com.ar Nicolas Espina Tacchetti

          Python is really easy… If you look some manual then in a our you are programing in python ;) … If you have some doubts let me know

        • http://mastropino.deviantart.com/ MastroPino

          same here, I’m a crap on python but I really hope that some one will release an empathy helper !

  • http://twitter.com/nicolaide Nicolas

    And we need a method in DBus to retrieve the icon theme :P… I see the DBus page of pidgin and i can’t find anything to do it…
    And about the SVG support… I think that is allready there… Try to drop an svg file into the dock and the icon is showed nice!

    • http://mastropino.deviantart.com/ MastroPino

      Sorry, I just try to remove old png and put svg file, modifying your script, and it worked!
      PS: sorry for multi posts :D

  • http://twitter.com/rainerblessing Rainer Blessing

    Sorry, but I couldn’t get it working. I am just using Docky for a few days and it is the first helper I tried to use.
    I use Docky 2.0.5 and there is no dockmanager directory, just /usr/share/docky/helpers.
    I copied the script to the helpers directory and activated it and Docky just hang. I also renamend the references to the DockManager in the script to Docky so that it looked like the provided Rhythmbox Helper script, but Docky hung as well with this change.

    • http://www.nicolasespina.com.ar Nicolas Espina Tacchetti

      I use Docky 2.1.0 (downloaded from the PPA) try with this version and maybe you can fix that problem…

      • http://twitter.com/rainerblessing Rainer Blessing

        Thanks! It works in version 2.1.0.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/edder.rojas Edder

    I wanna contact pidgin_control author to send him a modification to Pidgin control script, to restore a icon when pidgin is closed, also define a base path (who said themes) and created a mashup with faenza and pidgin-elementary icons.

  • http://twitter.com/Cibeles_ Amaya R. Gil Pippino

    Hey, just installed it and see no difference. Do I have to do something besides copy the .py files?
    I need the icon to show the number of messages pending to be seen, and I don’t have this.
    I’m running docky 2.0.12 on F14.
    Thanks

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379885538 Omega Adrek Adrek

      I have the same problem :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379885538 Omega Adrek Adrek

    Hi, How can I install them on Docky and make’em work ??

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379885538 Omega Adrek Adrek

    Isaw this ggogleing but idont know to make it work or what to do can you put a tutorial on how to install the emesene controler for Docky please

    http://forum.emesene.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=2995.0

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379885538 Omega Adrek Adrek

    Can anyone help me plz to make it run on DockbarX plz

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379885538 Omega Adrek Adrek

    Can anyone help me plz to make it run on DockbarX plz

 
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