This Yahoo! Messenger Smileys for Pidgin package was originally provided by Johan (http://johan.ro) but the site is offline for quite a while. Since I enjoyed this package under Windows/Linux (yes, I actually hate Yahoo! Messenger because of its poor coding, bloatware & adds), I am going to provide the package. The credit goes to the original author tho.
Because the original package lacks any form of installation, and I am well known as being a huge lazy bone when it comes to installing stuff, I also did some custom packaging of this theme. This means: (1) a self extract arhive which installs the package under Windows, basically a copy of the smiley directory right here: %appdata%\.purple\smileys\; (2) a basic schell script for Linux/*BSD which moves the smileys directory right here: ~/.purple/smileys/.
Download original package: SmileysTheme.tar.bz2
Download Windows package: smileytheme.zip
Download Linux/*BSD package: smileytheme.tar.gz
Installation:
- Windows: extract the smileytheme.zip archive with any unarchiver which supports the ZIP format (most of them can, even Windows XP/Vista has ZIP support), run the executable which you can find within, and that’s it.
- Linux/*BSD: extract the archive somewhere where you have write access (if you don’t remember … tar -xzvf smileytheme.tar.gz) climb the contained directory (also if you don’t remember … cd smileythemeinstall/) and run the install script (again, if you don’t remember … ./install.sh). If you can’t execute the script (o_O, this should never happen because the tar should preserve the file execute access, but we’re talking about computers after all :-”) try a chmod +x install.sh then run it again. After these simple steps you’re good to go.
- The final step which is common for both of the platforms is to actually activate the package. Go to Tools → Preferences (or for lazy bones like me Ctrl+P) → Smiley Themes tab, highlight the Yahoo! - Johan package, and enjoy good looking smileys. I know, the new default Pidgin smiley set was made either by a drunk/stoned designer, or a cheap one.
Later Notices:
- Johan is back in business
- The initial Linux package has a slight modification since it didn’t work by default under my FreeBSD. Now it should be fine for both Linux/*BSD.
Tuesday, January 8th 2008 at 7:03 pm
Multumesc mult pentru toate precizarile legate de mine, o sa preiau postul si o sa-l pun pe noul blog, eventual pe o pagina separata. Absenta sitului este datorata faptului ca am schimbat hostingul si am vrut sa mut situl pe tld, dar si din cauza lipsei acute de timp. Momentan schimba linkul blog.johan.ro in johan.ro.
Multumesc!