Pidgin: Birthday Reminder
Finally I finished a plugin which implements a feature that I was missing really much in Pidgin for ages now: the Birthday Reminder. Since I used Miranda before I switched to Pidgin you will be able to find some ideas my plugin has in common with WhenWasIt. 
So, what does the plugin do?
- Scanning Birthdays: Every 2 minutes the plugin chooses a buddy to query its user info which is similar to “right click -> Get Info”. This is supposed to work on ICQ, AIM, XMPP and MSN protocols in case the buddy has entered its birthday. The birthday can be set manually for all protocols.
- Checking Birthdays: Stored birthdays will be checked at midnight or whenever an account goes online. Of course this can be triggered manually too.
- Notification: The plugin reminds you using either a mini dialog in your buddy list or a notification window or a birthday melody or, last but not least, an icon next to your buddies entry in your buddy list. Enjoy the screenshot!
- Tooltip: Shows your buddies (stored) birthday on its buddy list tooltip.
- Overview: There is an overview provided which enables you to see all (stored) birthdays.
- Localization: There is just a german translation for now. I would be glad if you like to translate it into other languages.
Download: launchpad.net
I wish you a happy St. Valentine’s Day. 
Version 1.2.1:
* The plugin did not refresh the buddy list icons on midnight
Hallo zusammen,
Habe es per source mit ./configure && make gebastelt jedoch kommt mitten drin eine Fehlermeldung:
checking for pidgin… no
configure: error: pidgin >= 2.5.2 required!
Dies kann jedoch eigtl nicht sein, da ich vorher erst die aktuelle Version geladen habe (V.2.6.1). Ist es möglich, dass das Plugin mit dieser Version noch nicht funktioniert??
Grüße
harmlos
Wie hast du Pidgin denn installiert?
Du brauchst die Header-Dateien (
pidgin-devbzw.pidgin-devel).über die Konsole (http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ <-mit der Quelle)
habe jetzt einmal die Datei pidgin-dev nachinstalliert, nun komme ich weiter
hm werde mir das nachher nochmal genauer angucken funktioniert noch immer nicht richtig, auch wenn er jetzt pidgin findet…
so mal komplett neu installiert und jetzt scheint das Plugin zu laufen!
Vielen Dank, für dieses wirklich gute Programm!
very nice . I really love this plugins
Hello!
I want to help and translate it to swedish. My german is not very good, but I figure I should make changes in the source file birthday_reminder.c? Where should I send in then?
First, I want to say thanks for this Plugin.
But I’m afraid I have to report a bug. I have a contact, which is born at a 29th February and each start and daychange, it messages that he has birthday. I think there is a problem with leap year handling.
Yeah, that seems to be a bug.
Poor guy having birthday only once in four years (or lucky if he is more then 30 years old…) 
I will stick into this later. Thank you.