Re: [Gaim-devel] Individualized sounds for buddies?

[James M. <ja...@ma...>]

Murray Smigel wrote:
> I tend to run gaim on a separate desktop from my main workspace.
> I depend on the message arrival sounds to alert me to incoming
> messages. Would it be possible to customize the sound played
> upon message arrival on a per buddy basis?

If anyone wants to pursue this, I'd suggest doing it in a way similar to 
what I did to the (very old) gtkfaim: add execute-on-action 
for-all-buddies.  That is, instead of a sound, you could specify a 
program to run.  The program would get passed the SN of the buddy in 
question, the event type(?), and the text of the event for an IM.  I 
used it to call festival, which announced when I got an IM.  (It could 
have read the IM to me, but that was more annoying then useful.)

(The program run, in this case, was a shell script that substituted some 
screennames to make them more pronounceable, added in some standard 
language, and called Festival.  In Murray's case, it could find the 
correct sound to play, and play it.)

	-=- James Mastros