gradient fonts

[Programmer In Training]

On 03/16/10 22:27, Daniel Atallah wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:57, Saira Shabbir <saira.shabbir at bukhatir.ae> wrote:
>> Please guide me as to how can I get a gradient font in pidgin (the latest
>> version of pidgin). Gradient fonts as in the way we can make a combination
>> of colors like in yahoo.
> 
> It isn't really a "font" that makes the "rainbows" as much as
> something that inserts formatting into your message.
> 
> A plugin could be written to do this, but I'm not aware of any existing plugins.
> 
> Perhaps you can think of the absence of the ability to do this as a
> plus because nobody really wants to see a rainbow of incoming colors
> :)
> 
> -D

No kidding. I strip /all/ incoming formatting and apply no formatting
aside from the defaults on out-going. I find it annoying (and I would be
more then likely to block someone who messaged me in a rainbow of
colors) and I imagine others do as well. But, to each their own.
-- 
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