Copy and save the code posted below into a bash file named uninstallPidgintheme.sh for example or download the script file. I searched Google and realized that they only made tutorial (install Adium theme for Pidgin) in Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.4. It supportes several protocols, has plugins and skins. Pidgin is one of the best multiplatform apps for chatting. Hopefully this will be fixed/implemented in Pidgin upstream in the future.After downloading a theme and unpacking it into ~/.purple/themes it can be selected in Pidgin. After that, log in into Pidgin, go to the menu Tools -> Preferences -> Themes and choose your custom theme from the drop down list Smiley Theme. Welcome to the site dedicated to the appearance of the Pidgin messenger.
To my knowledge, neither of them have been packaged in any distribution, so you will have to run the Makefile I included to install both themes.Ĭaveat: As Pidgin does not support system-wide status-icon themes, you will have to install that theme locally and it will only be available on a per-user basis. You can get both themes from the same github repository. It makes use of all meaningful emotes provided by upstream elementary. I’m hoping for people to submit some bug-reports on github if they encounter a lack of support for a protocol standard for emoticons. While it may not support all protocol standards yet it should be pretty usable already.
Last week I extended this effort to emoticons and created an initial smiley theme for Pidgin. After Installation, move 'gtk2prefs.exe' from 'PidginGTK' to 'PidginGTKbin' subfolder. Thus, direct the Installation to that 'PidginGTK' folder. If Pidgin was installed in the currently standard way, GTK will be installed within it. As Xubuntu relies on the wonderful elementary set for iconography (in a variant maintained by me which is while being distro agnostic slightly misleadingly labeled “elementary-xfce”) the Pidgin theme was obviously done in that vein. Installation: Download the package: gtk2-themes-ash.exe. A while ago I started working on making Xubuntu’s default messenger app Pidgin look a little more integrated by creating a status-icon theme for it.