[Pidgin Plugins] #415: Request: avatar logger

[Pidgin Plugins]

#415: Request: avatar logger
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  Reporter:  Recman          |       Owner:  rlaager        
      Type:  FeatureRequest  |      Status:  closed         
  Priority:  4               |   Milestone:                 
 Component:  PluginPack      |     Version:  PluginPack2.1.1
Resolution:  worksforme      |    Keywords:                 
   Pending:  0               |  
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Changes (by rlaager):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme

Comment:

 Renaming the files (or making soft/hard links) with a script is trivial
 (if you're a programmer). For the album plugin to do this (without having
 a list in advance), it'd have to hash each file in the directory to see if
 it found a duplicate. As the number of files in the directory goes up,
 this becomes more and more work.

 Building a separate index file would work as well. I have concerns there,
 especially related to syncing .purple directories between multiple
 machines. One would have to run over the directory and make sure all the
 files were in there. Then, one could look up the hash in the index and
 rename the file. This still leaves a sync problem, so you'd have to delete
 the older file(s) of each duplication in that initial index pass.

 It's definitely technically possible, but I'm not sure if all this extra
 work would be worth it. I'm going to close this, but I'm not sure I'd be
 opposed to a patch.

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Ticket URL: <http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/ticket/415#comment:9>
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