Does anyone use Pidgin skins?

[Makaseo]

Been using Pidgin for a while now. It's amazing but I've gotten kind of bored of the plain, default white look.

I don't know how much you can customize a GTK program, but has anyone managed to make Pidgin look awesome? I've seen beautiful Adium themes, was just wondering if I've been missing out on a way to make Pidgin look better.

Thanks for any replies!

[GoodBytes]

I don't know, I use Trillian 5, its uses Windows 7/8 looks, native app. It looks kick-ass, it's simple, it has all the chat networks, and it syncs your chat history between devices, and you have Trillian 5 also for iPhone, Mac, Android and even Blackberry. Oh and you have in game chat too. So if you receive a message, you don't need to alt+tab your game to check it out, like Steam chat, you pop the over layer with a keyboard shortcut of your choice, and read the message and chat with anyone online, really cool feature.

https://www.trillian.im/

[obsidian1200]

Here's a link to an impressive list of plugins (the equivalent of Adium xtras) for pidgin: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins

There are some small interface tweaks there, but nothing that will, in my opinion, wow the user.

Here are some more links to Pidgin's documentation on customizing the program. These will help squeeze a wow or two out of that dingy interface :P

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#CanIskinPidgin

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SmileyThemes

Good luck!