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Original Smileys
10 Apr 2008 Filed under: Offline, Pidgin « Go Back in Time ∞ Go Forward in Time » Author: Andrei Neculauconsider a 2€, a 5€ or bigger donation!
- Original Smileys
- FAQ
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
- GTalk
+ access to hidden emoticons
+ round emoticons
+ square emoticons - Skype (requires the Skype plugin for Pidgin)
+ access to hidden emoticons - Sametime
- MySpaceIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Tencent QQ/Messenger (experimental; looking for feedback!)
Latest Version
0.9.2 (changelog inside the archive - pidgin-original/changelog.txt)
Installation
If you have the 0.8.2 or lower version, please check if you have any “pidgin-original-” folders under {Pidgin installation folder}/pixmaps/purple/emotes . If you do, please delete them.
Newer versions, with the easy installation, will target the user’s .purple directory.
- Download Original Smileys (7098) - 1.71 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
Looking forward to your feedback!
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Leon
April 27th, 2008 at 12:14 am
They work great. Took a while to figure out the whole archive thing, but after that, they worked perfectly! Thanks a bunch!
Andrei Neculau
April 27th, 2008 at 12:54 am
@Leon: Can you explain what went wrong, or what’s with figuring out the “archive thing”?
cristi
April 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Error 404 - Page Not Found when trying to download .. please do something about that
Andrei Neculau
April 28th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
@cristi: A big thanks for the notice! Fixed now!
anca
April 28th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Great job, Adrian!
Thank you very much!
anca
April 28th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
oups,
I am really, really sorry for that, Andrei (I am a little tired right now and can’t remember people’s name from the top of the page to the bottom comment form…)
great job nevertheless!
Happy coding!
Andrei Neculau
April 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Nu-i bai, Anca
Kim
May 5th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Fantastic! I nearly taught myself how to make a smiley archive simply so I could have something like this. Good thing I dug around on Google first.
Thank you! 
occasus
May 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Thanks for the effort. There seems to a bug though. After using some of the smilies, I can’t see the next message I send. It is only displayed after another message is send (the two are displayed together). Try for example :-h (before using any other simlies).
Andrei Neculau
May 12th, 2008 at 2:05 am
@occasus: That bug is something I experimented as well, but I never thought it has something to do with this smiley theme.
Can you tell me if you have found a reproduction scenario?! What protocol, which smiley.. turns this bug alive?
Hugh
May 12th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I found this bug relating to messages not appearing. http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/938 Seams to be something relating to animated smileys.
Andrei Neculau
May 12th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@Hugh: Thanks, Hugh!.. Indeed.. not smiley theme related.
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