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Wishlist for Kopete Features? Plugins?

punchin-punchout plugin

I would love to have a plugin for kopete that resets it's state every day at a configurable time. (like 4am for example)

Then the plugin looks for the first mouse/keyboard activity after that state-reset and starts a timer for a configurable amount of time.
(like 8 hours)

Then when the timer expires it can trigger a sound, popup, or other configurable script. (maybe even create a calendar event showing the start/stop time). This would keep track of my arrival at work in the morning and the time when I stop work each day on my calendar!

This way it would tell me to go home every day after I had worked my "8" hours.

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at KARM, but KARM is the software equivalent of a stopwatch. It does have the ability to monitor activity on a desktop and accumulate time on that desktop towards a counter,
It doesn't have the ability to trigger a function/script when a certain time period has elapsed, nor does it have the ability to reset the timer every day.

So I couldn't make it reset the stopwatch to zero every morning automatically and I couldn't make it trigger when 8 hours of desktop activity had elapsed for a given day and execute a script.

I thought a "plugin" for Kopete would be cool because I already have kopete open all the time, and because kopete already monitors my "away" status all the time.

Yeah you are right. I'll try to talk to the KARM or PTIMER people. See what that looks like.