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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 (15487) - 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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Smiff
June 6th, 2008 at 2:48 am
hi, thanks I see msn-pecan support!
but i’ll need to install for all users in the pidgin program dir, because of the way our network is setup… can you please advise how to do this so that its available to all users with one install per machine?
many thanks if we can!
Andrei Neculau
June 6th, 2008 at 9:51 am
@Smiff: I’ll update the FAQ section quickly.
Andrei Neculau
June 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am
@Smiff: Done. Hope it helps! Consider a small donation. Thanks!
Smiff
June 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am
sorry that doesn’t seem to work. i created the dir ‘emotes’ in purple because it wasnt there. the theme is not found. i’m not sure what the dir structure should be. i notice the default smileys are in \pixmaps\pidgin\emotes, so i tried putting the files in there but that wasnt found either, probably because of the theme file?
Smiff
June 9th, 2008 at 12:55 am
ah i figured it out.. the dirs from the archive need to go in \pixmaps\pidgin\emotes (not \purple\)
but there is another problem sorry - the alpha is broken on these icons. the old smileys looked fine with dark themes but these look bad on dark backgrounds - the edges have white dots etc. hope you can take a look, although this could be a lot of work!
Andrei Neculau
June 9th, 2008 at 10:58 am
@Smiff: What you’re saying doesn’t make sense, and I’m not going to look into that.
Smiff
June 9th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
sorry if i wasn’t so clear last night.
please try your icons with a dark style GTK theme (e.g. CleaLooks-DarkOrange http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/1065 ) on Pidgin 2.4.2 on Windows. the problem should be obvious - the icons look bad because the edge transparency is missing or not showing correctly. whereas the old icons included in pidgin work fine!. (probably because they are .gifs wheras the old ones are .png?)
When i get time I’ll probably fix up a set for myself using the old icons to work with WLM for now.
Andrei Neculau
June 9th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
@Smiff: Reply
Smiff
June 9th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
i thought I was just politely giving feedback - you don’t have to fix it, and i don’t have to make donation. i do have some experience with open source/free software projects and your attitude is… surprising.
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June 21st, 2008 at 1:48 am
in pidgin just go into the prefs - smiley themes - add and select the compressed file on ur desktop.
Will
June 24th, 2008 at 5:46 am
I don’t know what smiff’s problem is but everything works fine for me. Thanks for the cool icons.
Andrei Neculau
June 24th, 2008 at 8:23 am
@Will: Thanks, Will
Happy usage!
toplez
June 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
thx for smiley
Soroosh
June 28th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Thank you very much
Kim
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 am
I’ve been using this smile pak for a while and yes it’s the best one I’ve found, but I have to tell you that it’s missing one of my favorite yahoo smiles! It’s a little dancing guy which you get by typing \:D/ on YIM. Any chance it could get added with the next version?
Andrei Neculau
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:50 am
@Kim: There was no capital version, just \:d/ Should work ok in the new 1.1 version
Kim
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Ah, yes that makes sense… thanks for adding it to the theme file! I had poked around after I made my post and found the omission but was concerned if I edited it in I’d do something wrong and break it.
Hugh
July 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hey Andrei, keep up the good work with these smilies. I’ve just realised that on the Gmail themes you have missed :- x (without the space). It usually turns into a kiss!
Hugh
July 9th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Well I just realised that the kiss comes up with : * but not :- x as I usually use in the embedded Gmail chat. I’ve never used the Gtalk client.
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