Making Pidgin beautiful as Adium

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 Themes

My 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

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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 --help



The 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