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Friday, February 15th, 2008

Ubuntu icon theme

Another update:

Version 0.0.5 is now available here.

Update:

Thanks everyone for the positive repsonses! I’ve never thought this theme to be this popular.

Unfortunately there is not a very big chance this will be the default theme in Ubuntu, but I will do my best to get it in as an alternative set.

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Recently I switched from openSUSE to Ubuntu, no regrets until now, only positive things! openSUSE has let me down for some time now (package management and speed being the main reasons) and I found what I needed in Ubuntu 7.10.
There is one thing that annoys me, and that’s Ubuntu’s default look, openSUSE looks great from the start. Now Lapo did a great job on the Tangerine icons, but they were still a bit too “dark” for my taste. So I thought why not try to make a theme myself?

Some idea’s I came up with what the theme should be about, without losing the “Ubuntu Feel” : Jungle, Safari, Survival, Classical.

You can download a small preview, just extract the file in ~/.icons and select the Discovery icon theme in the theme manager. The icons are under CC-by-SA (except some leftover Tangerine files you may find in there).

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

MSNP14 in Pidgin

MSNP14 support in Pidgin isn’t ready yet but it’s already been added to the source code. MSNP14 gives you the possibility to set status messages, enable song reporting and send offline messages. Here’s how to enable it in Ubuntu. Remember, MSNP14 is still unsupported, use AT YOUR OWN RISK! (and don’t bug Pidgin developers about it)

Download and extract http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.3.1.tar.bz2

Remove Pidgin and related packages:

sudo apt-get remove pidgin finch libpurple

Install development packages:

sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin

Open up a terminal and move into the pidgin-2.3.1 directory.
Open the file “configure” in a text editor and replace the line “enable_msnp14=no” with “enable_msnp14=yes”.
Save and quit.