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[Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working on a python lens for Unity in 12.04 for pidgin. The idea 
being that online buddies are searchable and by activating them a window 
will pop up to message them. I've got the search part of the scope 
pretty well under control, nice list of users with their buddy icons 
displayed, thanks to reading some of the one hundred scopes project. 
Most of this is communicating to pidgin over dbus, with a little 
cheating and looking through the xml file for icon file names.

The part that I don't know how to do is catch the click/activate signal 
when the item is selected. Unlike most of the lenses, which are serving 
up a file or url, there isn't a url for openning a message to a buddy. 
However, if I can capture that event in any way, I can open the message 
window via a dbus call to pidgin.

Any helpful suggestions here? Would love to get this working and 
contribute it up to the one hundred scopes project.

Thanks in advance,

	-Sean

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Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
sean@xxxxxxxxx                                   Linux Users Group
http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org