Had been using Pidgin very long time for both my office and personal IM accounts. One missing feature that i never noticed was missing notifications when a buddy comes online or goes offline. Started searching and came across Guifications, a plugin for pidgin that will show a popup for a number of configurable events. Guifications can be downloaded and installed from the following location.
http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins/Guifications2/
It notifies you for a lot of events but what i wanted was when my friends login and logout of their IMs. I default popup that notifies failed to impress me, so started searching some themes for Guifications and found a lot of cool and colourful themes in the following link.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=676821&group_id=92888&func=browse
Installation of theme is easy, all you have to do is to unzip and place the folders at the correct location. In windows it is the following directory
<PIDGIN INSTALLATION DIR>\pixmaps\pidgin\guifications\themes
If you have the habit of displaying the song you hear as the status, musictracker plugin will help you in doing so in Pidgin. Check out http://code.google.com/p/musictracker/ for information about the same.
3 comments:
I used to wonder why notification pop-ups are not available in Pidgin. Thanks for the links..
thannnnks
Thank you for valid info about Themes directory
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