Make your own custom smileys for Pidgin

Posted on August 15, 2007 
Filed Under Instant Messaging

As you already know, I use Pidgin with Yahoo/MSN smileys with for my IM needs. Peter, from TurbulentSky, found out it’s possible for all of us to create your own Pidgin smiley themes and here is where you can find out how.

Basically, you should write a theme file that tells Pidgin which images to use for what combinations.

[default]
! hidden.png C:-) C:)
sad.png :( :-(
happy.png :) :-)
grin.png :-D :-d

#These show up only in MSN
[MSN]
sad.png :( :-(
happy.png :) :-)
grin.png :-D :-d
MSN_only.gif :-M :-$

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3 Responses to “Make your own custom smileys for Pidgin”

  1. Peter on August 16th, 2007 11:05 pm

    Thanks, Bobby. I guess I should’ve posted about it as well. :P Going to go do that right now.

  2. acosmin on August 23rd, 2007 2:17 pm

    Thx bob :) nice

  3. Mjölk och bananer on November 24th, 2007 8:22 pm

    [...] certain directory, and then make a text file containing simple text-to-image mapping (as described here by a Bobby Voicu). However, to save you the hassle, I will make mine accessible to you Pidgin-ing [...]

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