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

Chris Forsythe chris at growl.info
Thu Oct 11 12:41:34 EDT 2007


Does that include things like emoticons? Sorry for the seemingly 
ignorant question, but I'm curious as to what your definition of a 
"theme" actually is.

Chris

Hylke Bons wrote:
> I'm against Pidgin theming, that is: through an internal theme engine.
> GTK and the window manager are perfect for theming, maybe the system can
> be forced to use a particular theme? I remember there was a plugin that
> used a custom GTK theme.
>
> Funny though, that Linux is constantly attacked for it's visual
> inconsistency. (Doom scenario:
> http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/2149/wlm1mt.jpg ;) )
>
> Hylke
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:16 -0500, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Monitzer wrote:
>>     
>>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 15:58, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I would disagree with this. Customizations is one of the  
>>>> cornerstones of
>>>> why a lot of users like Adium. In my opinion they feel a sense of  
>>>> pride
>>>> and ownership in the product, since they can make it "their own".
>>>>
>>>> If you provide the tools to do this, then the concern about skins
>>>> reflecting a poor image of Pidgin can be decreased significantly,  
>>>> imho.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Don't forget that there's a huge difference between Mac users doing  
>>> graphics and Linux users doing graphics.
>>> (no offense intended)
>>>   
>>>       
>> True, but it'd be neat if Pidgin could load up Adium Xtras.
>>
>> Chris
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