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

[Chris Forsythe]

Good, so I guess this leads to the next question I had, which is, what 
would it take for Pidgin to load Adium Xtras, with the current Xtra formats?

Chris

Hylke Bons wrote:
> 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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