Fonts

[Eion Robb]

If its your own resource that you don't want to see, then editing the
"Local Alias" setting of the account is probably what you're after

On 11 July 2016 at 10:53, David G. <lightman at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Thanks.  I didn't know about that plug-in but it looks like it probably
> has the options I need to adjust the appearance.  Part of the problem is
> that it's unclear to an end-user which approach they should be using.  The
> themes don's seem to be supported well and that's confusing, with these
> other options to configure it.
>
> I tried disabling "Close IMs" and that seems to prevent it from creating a
> new file every time I close the window.  So, that might be good enough but
> I may still want to check out the SQLite option.
>
> Is there a way to adjust the layout/format of messages?  Right now it's
> showing <timestamp> <user>/<resource>: <message>
>
> I'd like to customize that and I don't really want to see the resource,
> ever.
>
> Thanks, again!
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, at 01:58 PM, Eion Robb wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Have you had any success with using the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin?
> It allows you to specify fonts for a lot of things including the 'GTK+
> Interface Font'.  You can find it in Tools->Plugins.
>
> The logging one does require a programming change, although it does sound
> like you close messaging windows a lot if you've only got one message per
> conversation - changing the 'Close IMs immediately when the tab is closed'
> setting in Tools->Preferences->Conversations might help with that.
> Alternatively you can use the SQLite Logging plugin which has an option to
> display in the 'View Log' window broken down by day, rather than by
> conversation.
>
> Cheers,
> Eion
>
> On 11 July 2016 at 08:50, David G. <lightman at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to change two things in Pidgin:
>
> 1. The appearance of the text in the "buddy list" and conversation
> windows.
> 2. Change logging to combine all messages from a day into a single file,
> instead of one per message.
>
> #2 probably needs a programming change but please let me know your
> thoughts.  Could a plug-in do it?
>
> #1: This doesn't make sense to me:
>
> A. The program has one option to change the font style but it defaults
> to "theme" and yet there are  no themes that come with the program.
>
> B: I tried creating a buddy theme per the wiki and it changes the buddy
> list font but not the messages, even though there is a "message_text"
> field.
>
> C: Meanwhile, the FAQ on changing the font has an entirely different
> approach and doesn't even mention themes but as mentioned above, the
> default font is supposed to be based on a theme!
>
> Can we get a default theme that works and demos what it can actually do?
> This is very confusing and the documentation is very mixed up.  The
> example theme .xml would be nice if it had some parameters in it, like
> font size, family/name and colors.
>
> Thanks!
>
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