Elementary Empathy Theme

Talented designer MastroPino strikes again; yesterday we featured his wonderful Elementary Pidgin theme and today we're excited to share with you his equally-sublime Empathy theme.

Rock out with your, er, empathy out.

I much prefer Empathy over pidgin but hate the default icons it comes with (y'know, those coloured shapes...) so whether or not you use Elementary as a theme this icon set will surely improve the look of Ubuntu's default IM app on any desktop.

Download and instructions over @ MastroPino's deviantart page

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Elementary Empathy Theme

An awesome elementary theme for Empathy, oddly submitted for potential inclusion in Lucid.

The picture sells the theme better than typed words can. A must for Elementary fans. Download http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/119449-elementary%20Empathy.zip

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Empathy Getting New Theme In Lucid

Empathy will be getting a custom theme for its inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. David Siegel, who works for Ubuntu's Design and User Experience team, posted the news on his twitter account, also mentioning that it'll be created by the designer of my favourite Empathy/Adium theme - 'Renkoo'. This news forms part of Round 4 of the "100 papercuts" push, with this round focusing on Empathy.

To find out how to install themes in Empathy with one click read our tutorial!

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One Click Install Of Adium Themes In Empathy

Oraerk on the Ubuntu Forums posted the following script, and i thought I'd share it with the wider world.

It allows one click installation of Adium themes in Empathy through the Adium themes website; You see a theme you like, click install and it’s done. No download, unpacking and moving – it’s all taken care of.

The Script

1) Open gedit (applications > accessories > gedit ) and paste the code from this link: -

• http://pastebin.com/f4bd48dc5

2) Save the file as adiumxtra-install somewhere of your choice (Perhaps create a ‘scripts’ folder in your Home directory?)

3.) Grant the script permissions (replacing /path/to/script/ with the correct path of where your script is): -

chmod 755 /path/to/script/adiumxtra-install
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/command “path/to/script/adiumxtra-install %s"
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/enabled true
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/needs_terminal false

Themes

Now you can browse along the Adium Themes site (link) and clicking on the ‘Install’ button next to a theme will automatically install it in Empathy.

 

Notes

Do bear in mind that a lot of themes are only partially compatible with Empathy so you may need to try a few to find one that works! Be sure to check out the Adium theme compatiabilty chat over at @ http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Themes

Also note that you may need to restart Empathy for a theme to show up in the preferences dialog.

For support or questions oraerk asks that you post in the thread on the Ubuntu Forums. (Link)

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