I want to share my work. Who saw Adium on Mac OS X, he knows that he is even with default themes more beautiful than Pidgin under all three systems supported by him. In addition, for Adium'a extensions, icon and other packs a huge amount -
look here , and for Pidgin - the cat wept, and even what is centrally nowhere is laid out.
Then I will tell you how to fasten
themes of sounds ,
status icons and
emoticons , as well as a
theme docbar from Adium to Pidgin, using:
My Adium Theme Conventer in Pidgin ThemesMy applet for Cairo-dock :
UPD: Do not be lazy,
vote here for the ticket , so that the developers of Pidgin tray themes, status sheet and protocols screwed
')
We fasten threads
It's simple. We download
my script in Python, install additional software:
- xmllint - most likely delivered in your distribution
- ffmpeg - if you need to convert sound themes
Download themes for
status icons ,
sounds , or
emoticons from
adiumxtras.com .
Now we start from the terminal:
./adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py _zip___
and the script will unpack the theme, determine its type, perform the conversion and install where necessary (for example, themes the status of icons in
~ / .purple / themes / theme_name / purple / status-icon / ). If the theme does not need to be installed, but only needs to be converted, run the script with the parameter
--output = output_folder . If the type is not defined (it happens), use
--type = , but in general, see
--helpThe result of the program (I can not scare sounds):

Fasten the dock
We
put cairo-dock . Download
my applet to it . Unpack the applet in
~ / .config / cairo-dock / third-party / pidgindock , restart the dock. In the settings of the dock, the
pidgindock item now appears with a green adium icon, the applet is turned on through this item, and the applet theme can be selected there.
The applet fully understands the
themes of Adiuma dock , with animation and without conversion. Just copy the theme folder (
name.adiumicon in the
archive ) into
~ / .config / cairo-dock / third-party / pidgindock / Themes and enter the name of its folder in the settings. You can also put my script above described from zip.
Screenshots can be viewed
here , but in general we get a picture of such a plan:


Future plans
It is planned to support the installation of the "on the fly", as in Makosi. Pre-configuration of Firefox is described
here .
If the pidgin developers finish support for the tray icons, buddy-list or something else, I will immediately add them to the script.
Bucks and glitches are hotly accepted