A "TURTLE" checklist serves as a helpful reminder for those finding the project later, as a reminder for why it was archived. You can read more about the TURTLES checklist 🐢

T — Technologists: Did enough people contribute to maintaining this project? Developers, Architects, Security, Operations?

• Developers: Only James
• Interesting?: No, very simple utility plugin.
• More/Less?: 1 person was enough.

U — Users: Did this project have enough active users?

• Who?: I think only I used this plugin!
• How many?: Just me
• Marketing: Not really something that many people wanted - no point in marketing it.

R — Requirements: Was this project still doing what we set out for it to do?

• Original requirements met?: Yep
• Scope creep?: None
• Roadmap: Nothing

T — Technology: Are there any unsustainable technologies behind this project?

• Sustainability: Pidgin seems reasonably well maintained, with packages for all modern distros still, but perhaps has less users now-a-days. It seems g++ compiles with several warnings now.
• Changes?: Limited by the pidgin API
• Dependencies frozen?: Doesn't seem much point - see Pidgin.
• Outdated dependencies?: It seems Pidgin relies on some older GTK versions, but nothing major.

L — Learning: Was anything being learned by maintaining this project? (See my article about Odyssey projects — sometimes “just coding to learn” is enough of a reason to keep a project going).

• Developers: Nothing too much, as the base code was copied from another plugin (with permission)
• Operators: N/A
• Project managers: N/A
• Budget/Finance: N/A
• Business: N/A

E — Ecosystem: Is there an alternative to writing this project?

• Alternative approach?: Nope, this project is tied to Pidgin.
• Alternative tech/Open Source?: N/A
• Duplication?: No other plugins exist that do this as far as I know.

S — Salvage: Can anything useful be salvaged from this project?

• Reuseable code?: It's a very small project, nothing reusable it seems.
• Forkable?: I borrowed code from the leftify-tabs plugin, if you find something here useful, please go for it :-)
• Reusable non-tech?: N/A

This is a copy of "leftify tabs" which can be found here - copied with permission from the original author: https://github.com/nablaa/pidgin-leftify-tabs-plugin

Order conversation tabs alphabetically. Tabs are ordered on startup, use the /ordertabs in any chat to order your tabs anytime. This plugin has no options.

Install pre-requisite pidgin-devel and libpurple-devel packages.

for Fedora:

sudo yum install pidgin{,-devel} libpurple-devel make gcc

for Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev libpurple-dev

Compiling the plugin

make

Installing the plugin to ~/.purple/plugins/

make install

Enable plugin Order Tabs from Pidgin plugins list.