Inspired by pidgin-musictracker and the abscence of similiar a Plugin/Script for Skype for Linux, I have decided to write one on my own. This script uses the DBus-Interface of Banshee to retrieve the currently played track. This information is written via the Skype4Py-API into the mood message of the currently logged in account.

At the moment there is only Banshee supported, but I have planned to support some more players soon — so do not expect too much now, especially as I am still a Python beginner.

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Ubuntu packages are available on http://www.getdeb.net/app/Pidgin.

Pidgin 2.5.0 has been released today. At time of writing you can get it only on the sourceforge project page (the links on the actual pidgin.im aren’t linked yet amd points to v2.4.3). You will find there Linux (RPM, SRC-RPM) and Windows binaries and of course the source package itself.

Debian/Ubuntu users need to compile themselves. Ubuntu users can also wait till it’s available on getdeb.net — i guess this will be just a matter of a few hours (I would recommend to wait, as compiling pidgin yourself is a pain in the ass).

If you haven’t got the time or don’t want to compile by yourself, you can use the Pidgin packages provided by Tobias Stegmann. In this repositories are the 2.4.3 packages.

Fucking crazy? A couple of week ago, there already have been some trouble with Pidgin and the ICQ protocol (this did not exclusively affect Pidgin). After a quite uneventfully day yesterday, my Pidgin showed me the following message this morning: “The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/”. WTF? ICQ excludes alleged clients from their network again.
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