ignoring images in conversation

[Etan Reisner]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:41:16PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote:
> Hello. Sometimes, when talking to MSN Messenger users, certain words
> seem to be replaced by images that appear inline on the conversation
> window. Conversation logs in text mode show the words instead of the
> images. These images are sometimes quite anoying, and I can't find a
> way to disable them (show the words instead of the images, just like
> the text log), is it possible?
>
> I'm using Pidgin 2.4.1 on Linux.

Those are custom smileys, they can be turned off either by using the None
smiley theme or in the account preferences for the account. Or, and this
is the best solution really, by telling your friends to stop using them in
the first place.

    -Etan