Status Icon Themes

Installing

After downloading a theme and unpacking it into ~/.purple/themes it can be selected in Pidgin.

Creating

The easiest way to create is theme is to manipulate an existing one by just replacing the graphics. Here is an simple example for you to work with using the standard icons.

<theme type="pidgin status icon"
       name="Original Pidgin Status Icon Theme"
       author="name"
       image="">
  <description>
    Pidgin Original Status Icon Theme
  </description>

  <icon id="pidgin-status-available" file="available.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-available-i" file="available.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-away" file="away.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-away-i" file="away.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-busy" file="busy.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-busy-i" file="busy.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-chat" file="chat.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-invisible" file="invisible.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-xa" file="extended-away.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-xa-i" file="extended-away.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-login" file="log-in.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-logout" file="log-out.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-offline" file="offline.png" />
  <icon id="pidgin-status-person" file="person.png" />
</theme>

How to customize this example

• Download the example
• Unpack it into ~/.purple/themes
• Rename the folder to match your themes' name
• Open purple/status-icon/theme.xml, it should look like this:
• The IDs should be pretty self-explanatory. The i-prefix is for idle.
• The directory purple/status-icon contains the directories 11, 16, 22, 32, 48. They contain the icons in the according size. Pidgin chooses the right size automatically.
• Replace the icons, create an archive and you are done.