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EionRobb / skype4pidgin

Skype Plugin for Pidgin, libpurple and more
https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb#skypeweb-plugin-for-pidgin
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Custom Chaticons #633

Closed Vampire closed 5 years ago

Vampire commented 5 years ago

In Skype you can have a custom icon for a chat. Would be nice if this custom icon could also be shown in Pidgin like the profile image instead of the Skype logo.

EionRobb commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately the libpurple api doesn't give us a way of providing this to the UI from a protocol plugin :(

Vampire commented 5 years ago

So you can only specify one icon for all chats? Because the Skype-Icon is shown as chat icon.

EionRobb commented 5 years ago

Ah, the protocol icon is slightly different. You can show or hide that in conversations with Buddies->Show->Protocol Icons (or there's a plugin to enable them too) - but these can only be set to icons that ship with Pidgin.

In Pidgin, you can right-click a chat in the buddy list and choose "Set Custom Icon" that will set the chat icon, but this is a pidgin-only feature, not part of libpurple