Change the Green Online Icon to an Icon reflecting the IM Protocol?

[Billy Crook]

The green icon of which you speak does not represent a person's screen name,
but a person's identity.  Expand that line item to see which protocols and
on which screen names they are signed on.  For instance, I am signed on
under four XMPP usernames, over ten AIM names, a yahoo, and an IRC.  My
friends see only one entry in their buddy list for me though, so which IM
protocol's icon should be displayed?  Knowing the IM protocol is useless as
it really doesn't change your relationship with that person or what you were
about to say to them.

I do like the idea of making pidgin skinnier though, and support for skinned
UIs woudl be very nice, just not as important as many other features though
like gpg integration or message filters.  Then again, that's a matter of
opinion, and in this case, the only opinion that matters is that of the
people who develop the code.

On 10/10/07, Charliep <charliep at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have a question about Pidgin: Is there a way to Change the Green Online
> Icon to an Icon reflecting the IM Protocol? The Green Icon is useless as
> it
> really doesn't convey any information. Eliminating it completely would be
> better since it would save space - and you would still know whether the
> user
> was online or not by the color of the text (black - online / grey - away /
> not showing - not online). I would REALLY like to figure out a way to
> change
> the generic green icon to an individual Protocol Theme Icon, like an MSN
> Icon if the person is an MSN user or and AOL Icon if the person is an AOL
> user. Is there a way to do this????
>
> Also, Is there a GTK theme available that can make Pidgin more compact?
> There just seems to be a lot of wasted space in Pidgin right now, and I
> would like to keep the size of Pidgin on my desktop as small as possible.
> I
> would like to make the sliding bar on the right hand side skinner. I would
> like to get rid of the ... after a name that is too long, and I would like
> to just tighten things up so the margins to the left and right of the
> Green
> Icon are smaller.
>
> Finally, the reasoning for Pidgin not allowing Skinning really doesn't
> make
> sense. If you want to provide support to people based on a single
> user-interface just simply tell them to revert back to the default skin if
> they want support. And to say you will NEVER do something is just ... it
> reflects a management style that is in direct opposition to what the
> market
> may want / demand some time in the future.
>
> Overall I think Pidgin is a great product. As a long time Miranda user I
> am
> fed up with the user-unfriendliness of Miranda. But I think the inability
> to
> customize the user interface within Pidgin and the present user interface
> leaves a lot to be desired. The Miranda user interface is better IMHO, at
> least for me, so now I am in a bind - I love the Pidgin functionality and
> stability, but don't like the user interface. Your help is appreciated.
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