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

[Hylke Bons]

No, I'm talking about the window border and widget styles, the rest can
be easily themed (there l are lots of themes available, check
gnome-look.org for example). Of course the borders and widgets can also
be themed but this is a bit harder to do for Pidgin in particular.

Hylke


On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:41 -0500, Chris Forsythe wrote:
> 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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