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[kopete] message to self?

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Saturday, February 4th 2006, 8:17am

[kopete] message to self?

How do I send a message to myself?

I tried adding myself as a contact, but kopete says I can't do that :-(

Just in case it isn't obvious why I would want to do this: for example, when I am doing a long compilation, it is handy to use "dcop kopete ..." to send myself a message when the compilation completes. There are lots of similar reasons for wanting to do this.

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Saturday, February 4th 2006, 11:14am

RE: [kopete] message to self?

Maybe it is an option to register another account and add that one to your contact list. That way, you can put yourself in the contact list (because Kopete doesn't know it is yourself).

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Saturday, February 4th 2006, 4:56pm

RE: [kopete] message to self?

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Maybe it is an option to register another account and add that one to your contact list. That way, you can put yourself in the contact list (because Kopete doesn't know it is yourself).


Yes you can do that -- but then when you send the message via "dcop kopete ..." you get TWO windows pop up with the message :-( [one for the sender, and one for the recipient, I think.] I haven't been able to figure out any way just to have a single window appear.

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Saturday, February 4th 2006, 8:52pm

RE: [kopete] message to self?

I do now a way to only see one box, but it is a little bit moving the problem. Some protocols (e.g. Jabber) support offline message storage (on the server). Because of that, you can send messages to it without the need of being online. It is moving the problem, because the next time you come online with the new account, you get all the messages again.

Another (not very nice) way to work around this is writing a plugin. AFAIK, a plugin can generate messages that don't need to leave the system.

Maybe there are other possibilities where I didn't think about yet.

You can also use another program to send notifications to yourself. For example, KOrn is able to accept messages through dcop and set a notification in the system tray (of course, you can also view your message).

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Saturday, February 4th 2006, 10:56pm

OK.

It will be quicker for me to write a quick-and-dirty jabber client that just knows how to send trivial messages. Pity, because that's exactly what I thought I could avoid simply by using a "dcop kopete ... " command. Seems a bit weird that one can use such a command to send messages to anyone except oneself, but I guess that there must be some inherent limitation built into kopete somewhere. Odd, because other jabber clients (e.g., psi) allow one easily to send oneself messages, which is often handy for debugging purposes.