Kopete online contacts script

[Jaconux]

Hey,
I've thrown together a small script which displays a list of your currently online kopete contacts (KDE4):

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#!/bin/bash         

# Check that kopete is running
VAR=`dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.kopete /Kopete org.kde.Kopete.contactsByFilter string:"online" 2>&1`
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
{
  echo Kopete is not online...
  exit 1
} fi

# Get list of online users (returns their ID numbers)
VAR=`dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.kopete /Kopete org.kde.Kopete.contactsByFilter string:"online" | grep string | replace '"{' '' | replace '}"' '' | replace string '' `

# Translate each ID number to the actual display name
a=0
for i in $VAR; do
ARR[$a]=$'\n '`dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.kopete /Kopete org.kde.Kopete.getDisplayName string:$i | grep string | replace 'string "' '• ' | replace '"' '' | replace '   ' ''`
let a++
done

# Print each unique display name
echo "${ARR[*]}" | sort | grep -v '^$' | uniq

The script is not very elegant, but it gets the job done. I guess you can use it to quickly check who is online in a terminal, but I mainly use it in the yasp.scripted Widget (see attachment).

Hope someone finds this useful.

Happy new year
- Jacob.


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[travisN000]

It seems to me that could be very useful..  and it also makes me think of another possible use for this:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,68244.msg557310.html#msg557310