Andrei Neculau

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

1. Download Original Smileys (15455) - 1.89 MB
2. Open Pidgin, click Tools from the main menu, then Preferences (or simply Ctrl+P in the Pidgin window)
3. Go to the Smiley Themes tab
4. Drag and drop the downloaded tgz archive (i.e. pidgin-original-x.x.x.tgz), or click Add and point to the archive
5. 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!