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Original Smileys
10 Apr 2008 « Go Back in Time ∞ Go Forward in Time » By: Andrei Neculau Filed under Offline, Pidginconsider a 2€, a 5€ or bigger donation!
Back in September 2007, I started to build a common Smiley Theme for the Pidgin Multi-protocol Messenger. The innovation was that it was implementing the original emoticons/smileys of their respective messenger/protocol - Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, etc.
Today I give it a major push - easy installation and new hosting place.
Messengers/Protocols Supported
- Yahoo!
+ access to hidden emoticons - MSN/Live!/WLM
+ access to hidden emoticons
+ support for msn-pecan plugin - AIM
- ICQ
- Google Talk
+ access to hidden emoticons
+ round emoticons
+ square emoticons - Skype (requires the Skype plugin for Pidgin)
+ access to hidden emoticons
+ support for D-Bus plugin - Sametime
- MySpaceIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Tlen.pl (thanks to Kasper Wieczorek)
- Tencent QQ/Messenger (experimental; looking for feedback!)
- Facebook (requires the Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin)
Latest Version
1.1 (changelog inside the archive - pidgin-original/changelog.txt)
Installation
- Download Original Smileys (15508) - 1.89 MB
- Open Pidgin, click Tools from the main menu, then Preferences (or simply Ctrl+P in the Pidgin window)
- Go to the Smiley Themes tab
- Drag and drop the downloaded tgz archive (i.e. pidgin-original-x.x.x.tgz), or click Add and point to the archive
- Select Original Smileys from the list, and click OK
If you want to install the smileys for all users, read how to do it in the FAQ section.
You can also take a look at
My Pidgin Setup - Graphics and My Pidgin Setup - Plugins.
Looking forward to your feedback!
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Andrei Neculau
July 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
@Hugh: Thanks. I will look into it, and come back with a quick updated version if I find any hickups.
Claire
July 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hi Andrei, I try to drag and drop the tag but it doesn’t appear into the preferences window. Same with the add button.
I use windows XP, pidgin 2.4.3
Could you help me please?
Andrei Neculau
July 11th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
@Claire: It should work… I will test it soon on the same configuration you described here, but it sure sounds weird..
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macstyle
July 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Thanks a lot
shuguang
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Could my friends who use windows live messenger see these icons?
Andrei Neculau
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
@shuguang: The short and clean answer is YES! This pack is specifically built with the sole purpose of giving you a “what I see is what you see” experience.
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Murat Feyzifar
August 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
There is a problem in Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 & Pidgin 2.4.1, whenever I choose the Tien.pl smiley pack, pidgin first snoozes and then stop responding with inevitably quitting forceably. Others work perfect!
Andrei Neculau
August 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
@Murat Feyzifar: mmm.. thanks for sharing this info.
Unfortunately, I cannot replicate your environment, but.. you can try deleting/renaming the images in pidgin-original/tlen one by one, or in bulks at first, and you can determine which of the smileys are problematic. When you determine that, I can investigate upon the reasons. On Windows, there’s no problem.
Sorry about not being able to analyze the situation..
EXP
August 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Thanks so much for doing this. I just started using pidgin from trillian, and wanted the standard icons for each chat program. This worked perfectly!!
agustin
September 4th, 2008 at 5:28 am
they are awesome, thanks
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