One unique feature of Empathy is the ability to use Adium chat themes – which is great for those looking to have a different chat layout during IM’s.
Installation
To install any of the following themes you simply extract the downloaded archive and move the *.AdiumMessageStyle into the following folder (which you may need to create!):
~/.local/share/adium/message-styles/*.AdiumMessageStyle
Once installed you can start using your chat theme right away by selecting it from Preferences > Themes.
Adium Matte
Based on OS X’s iChat message layout.
Download: http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4987
Ravenant Dust
A Empathy theme that blends in flawlessly with the Dust GTK theme.
Download: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Themes/Ravenant_Dust
NoteBoard!
Quirky, but definitely unique!
Download: http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=6218
Modern
Sleek and minimal – great for similar GTK themes.
Download: http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2158
Eclipse
This theme does have the ability to have different background, but i haven’t had chance to play around much with it yet to find out how!
Download: http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=374
