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# Pidgin Original Smileys



A Pidgin theme that implements original protocol smileys, originally hosted [here](http://wiki.andreineculau.com/Original_Smileys_Theme_for_Pidgin).



![](pidgin-original/pidgin-original.png)



# WARNINGs



**This project has been discontinued**! A fork is maintained at https://github.com/Hernou/pidgin-EAP . See https://github.com/Hernou/pidgin-EAP/commit/912eb60052046d0b5aa3a1f7fdc35bc6f5bc2cb6#diff-8a8ada6024e7b287c57e64de181a388c



## Copyright/License



Emoticons are gray territory. While they are re-used in several ways across the web, they are actually copyrighted under different license terms.



This theme on the other hand is [unlicensed](http://unlicense.org/).



## Contribution



This Pidgin theme hasn't been under development since 2010-02-26.



~~If~~ When you find missing/incorrect/low-quality smileys, please file [a Github issue](https://github.com/andreineculau/pidgin-original-smileys/issues/new), or even better send a pull request.



# Overview



The birth: September 2007.



The scope: [Pidgin](https://pidgin.im) (multi-protocol messenger).



The innovation: use the original emoticons/smileys of their respective messenger/protocol - Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, etc.



The reasoning: if emoticons show emotions, then different drawings show different emotions, no matter how many similarities they share.



The technical common-sense: emoticons have grown to be proprietary to the protocol. So it is common-sense that when you are using a certain protocol to communicate, you use its emoticons too.



The e-collaboration principle: WYSIWIS (What-you-see-is-what-I-see).



The hibernation: February 2010.



The changelog: [pidgin-original-changelog.txt](pidgin-original-changelog.txt)



# Supported protocols



* [AIM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol_Instant_Messenger)

* [Gadu-Gadu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadu-Gadu)

* [Google Talk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk)

    * hidden emoticons (all visible)

    * round emoticons

    * square emoticons

    * colored emoticons

* [Facebook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) (requires the [Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin](http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/))

* [ICQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ)

* [MSN/Live!/WLM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger)

    * hidden emoticons (all visible)

    * support for [MSN Pecan](http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/) plugin

    * support for [Microsoft OCS/LCS](http://sipe.sourceforge.net/) plugin

* [MySpaceIM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpaceIM)

* [Sametime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Sametime)

* [Skype](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype) (requires the [Skype plugin for Pidgin](http://eion.robbmob.com/))

    * hidden emoticons (all visible, except the flags)

    * support for D-Bus plugin

* [Tencent QQ/Messenger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ) (experimental; looking for feedback!)

* [Tlen.pl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlen.pl) (thanks to Kasper Wieczorek)

* [Yahoo!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger)

    * hidden emoticons (all visible)

    * big emoticons



# Installation



1. Download the latest [tgz](https://github.com/andreineculau/pidgin-original-smileys/archive/v1.9.tar.gz)

1. Open Pidgin, click Tools from the main menu, then Preferences (or simply Ctrl+P in the Pidgin window)

1. Go to the Smiley Themes tab

1. Drag and drop the downloaded tgz archive (i.e. pidgin-original-x.x.x.tgz), or click Add and point to the archive

1. Select Original Smileys from the list, and click OK