Do Gets Pidgin+Evolution Integration

I’m working on some amazing new features for GNOME Do. Currently, I have two plugins that index Evolution contacts and Pidgin buddies respectively. The cool thing is that these plugins are able to merge contact information from Evolution and Pidgin into single contacts in Do. For example, if I have a contact for “John Doe” in Evolution which includes John’s email address and screen name, and if I have John’s screen name and buddy icon on my Pidgin buddy list, Do will show me a single contact named “John Doe” with John’s email address and screen name from Evolution, and John’s buddy icon from Pidgin. Or, if I only have John’s email address in Evolution, but I have John’s screen name aliased as “John Doe” in Pidgin, the contact information will still be merged into a single contact item in Do. This can be extended by other plugins to merge contact information from any number of other sources; Thunderbird, Gmail contacts, etc. This means that you don’t need to worry about where contact information is stored—you only need to know the person’s name and Do takes care of the rest. So cool. You can (sort of) see some of these features in action in this blurry screencast.

You can download GNOME Do from its Launchpad site.

5 Comments

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under GNOME Do

5 Comments

  • Michael
    November 2nd, 2007 at 7:07 am

    Hey David,

    I am an Ubuntu user, and I’m really impressed with Quicksilver. I’ve been looking for something similar on Linux and it looks like Gnome Do might just be it for those using the Gnome desktop! I haven’t gotten to try it out yet, but I am pretty excited.

    Thanks for all of your hard work, the new features sound great!

    Michael (a random passerby)

  • Trey
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Docs for Do? I’ve installed Do. I’ve heard a lot about Quicksilver, but I’ve never really used it. I need some docs to show me the power of Do. Are there some docs that can help me out?

  • David
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Type to search, tab to switch between panes, down arrow shows you more results, and you can use down and up to navigate. Pressing return will execute the action you’ve prepared. Escape clears search results and dismissed the window. Clicking off the window dismisses the window. You can use control-q to quit when the window is showing. If you’d like to contribute to our project, would you consider writing some docs for us? :)

    For more info, keep checking the website (http://do.davebsd.com) or pop your head our IRC channel (more info on the website). The mailing list has some useful hints, too. You might also want to try a basic Quicksilver tutorial because we borrow a lot of its keyboard interaction.

  • Antonin
    December 18th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Hi

    Gnome Do is a great job, thanks …

    But your plugins are not working that well (yes, they are working, but…) : I use Pidgin with 2 msn accounts, 1 AIM, 1 YIM, 1ICQ (1 irc, 3 gtalk …) and the pidgin addin seems no to be working with msn (either screename or address). Don’t botter, i don’t really care :p
    Evolution not working, but not due to your plugin ;)

    Thanks for the job.

  • Yurtdisi Egitim
    March 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    it seems like e very good web site but my English is not good. It would be great if it might be availible in other languages too. Thanks.

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