Description: Plugin adds toolbar, status bar and context menu to Pidgin buddy list, hide main menu, change of status through the menu, not through Statusbox, and much more. Buttons on toolbar: - add contact; - show offline buddies; - show or hide details about buddy; - mute sound; - options; - accounts. You can easy configure plugin via toolbar context menu. If you have many accounts, you can select compact view of information about your accounts: protocol emblems combined with status icons. Buttons and information on statusbar: - information about main status and all active accounts: status, status text, account name, account emblem; - change any account status button. Via context menu on change account status button you can call edit account dialog or disable account.
Install: 1. Download archive; 2. Extract files; 3. ./configure; 4. make; 5. sudo make install; 6. Start (restart) Pidgin; 7. Check 'Toolbar'n'Statusbar' in list of plugins.
On homesite you can find .deb-package, dll-files and more screenshots.
It's one of the best plugins for pidgin and can we customize the tool bar icons so that they match with the system theme ?:) thanks a lot for sharing :)
I would be glad to use the standard system icons, but some just do not have icons in the system themes (http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.13/gtk-Stock-Items.html). In early versions, wherever possible, some of them were used. But because of this approach, users are deprived of the opportunity to create their own icon themes, all the toolbar icons.
Pidgin uses, in addition to the system, and even its own set of icons (http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/pidginstock_8h.html), which includes icons that just described, but no images.
You can create your own set of icons. Icons can be placed on the path /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/buttons, or ~/.purple/pixmaps/pidgin/buttons.
offtop: A couple of months ago, Google mutilated text search and image search, so I had to abandon it and move on yandex.ru, and now they have disfigured the Google translator miserable likeness Punto Switcher/gxneur. Why mutilate it is rare that you could make available for use? ??????? :(
Hi!
I'm getting this error on compiling the sources:
checking for PIDGIN... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin purple) were not met:
No package 'pidgin' found
No package 'purple' found
I have pidgin installed =/
like others, i had problems with the statusbar and this was the solution:
> cd /usr/lib/pidgin
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/pidgin/toobars.so
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/pidgin/toobars.la
I've installed it few week ago from sources. But I use Autosize plugin simultaneously and it do not sum list height with TooBars, so scrollbars appears... If you can do something or comunicate with developers of Autosize it would be great!
I will study this problem, I just do not like it when something happens on the computer without my knowledge, even if the window size. Therefore, this plug-in I did not set. :)
it's fine until i reload pidgin.. the only thing i'd wanted is the per account status set (meaning as mystatusbox has so that you can acutally see it all the time)
Maybe I have something not understood, but this plugin you can see the status for each account in the form of icons, as well as text, as well as change them.
Try to build from source. I see this problem, when i install deb-file which was generatitng with Pidgin 2.7 with Ubuntu 9.04 installed on system with Pidgin 2.6.6, but with Ubuntu 10.04.
Hola, yo tengo problemas con la barra de estado, pues no me muestra las cuentas.
tengo instalado Pidgin 2.6.6, Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) con gnome 2.30.0 y el complemento TooBars plugin for Pidgin 1.6
bueno allí una imagen de como esta actualmente
http://i41.tinypic.com/1z5mauv.jpg
Hi!
I guess what could be a problem.
In the new version, which I hope will be released this week, it should not.
In general, the new version is a lot of code was rewritten, and the functional change - the status can be changed through the menu. Old bugs will not, but there will be new! : D
Thank you for your message!
Hola, la versión 1.7 no se instala correctamente:
luis@luis-desktop:~/.pidgin-toobars-1.7$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool-update... no
checking for intltool-merge... no
checking for intltool-extract... no
configure: error: The intltool scripts were not found. Please install intltool.
Ratings & Comments
63 Comments
It's one of the best plugins for pidgin and can we customize the tool bar icons so that they match with the system theme ?:) thanks a lot for sharing :)
I would be glad to use the standard system icons, but some just do not have icons in the system themes (http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.13/gtk-Stock-Items.html). In early versions, wherever possible, some of them were used. But because of this approach, users are deprived of the opportunity to create their own icon themes, all the toolbar icons. Pidgin uses, in addition to the system, and even its own set of icons (http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/pidginstock_8h.html), which includes icons that just described, but no images. You can create your own set of icons. Icons can be placed on the path /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/buttons, or ~/.purple/pixmaps/pidgin/buttons. offtop: A couple of months ago, Google mutilated text search and image search, so I had to abandon it and move on yandex.ru, and now they have disfigured the Google translator miserable likeness Punto Switcher/gxneur. Why mutilate it is rare that you could make available for use? ??????? :(
ooh god is amazing :D
Hi! I'm getting this error on compiling the sources: checking for PIDGIN... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin purple) were not met: No package 'pidgin' found No package 'purple' found I have pidgin installed =/
Hi! You need to install pidgin-dev and libpurple-dev first. Good luck!
Thx, man, got installed, Using it right now! =D Cheers
like others, i had problems with the statusbar and this was the solution: > cd /usr/lib/pidgin > sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/pidgin/toobars.so > sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/pidgin/toobars.la
Hi! Yes, i know about this bug. Soon (hopefully) will be a new release and there this problem will be solved. Thank you for your message!
I've installed it few week ago from sources. But I use Autosize plugin simultaneously and it do not sum list height with TooBars, so scrollbars appears... If you can do something or comunicate with developers of Autosize it would be great!
I will study this problem, I just do not like it when something happens on the computer without my knowledge, even if the window size. Therefore, this plug-in I did not set. :)
I'd like keep all minimal size even buddy list window:)
I may just add a plug-in a similar possibility.
too bad it's not working fine with the mystatusbox plugin
Try start mystatusbox first, then - toobars. (This plugin and thought (including) to replace the uncomfortable mystatusbox)
it's fine until i reload pidgin.. the only thing i'd wanted is the per account status set (meaning as mystatusbox has so that you can acutally see it all the time)
Maybe I have something not understood, but this plugin you can see the status for each account in the form of icons, as well as text, as well as change them.
yes you did not:)) i'm talking about custom statuses
A! :) Custom statuses in the status bar, I think, is not worth output it:)
solved now with this version :) kicked out mystatusbox, welcome toobars
I installed from the .deb and can't enable it just no show me the plugin :S
Try to build from source. I see this problem, when i install deb-file which was generatitng with Pidgin 2.7 with Ubuntu 9.04 installed on system with Pidgin 2.6.6, but with Ubuntu 10.04.
Hola, yo tengo problemas con la barra de estado, pues no me muestra las cuentas. tengo instalado Pidgin 2.6.6, Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) con gnome 2.30.0 y el complemento TooBars plugin for Pidgin 1.6 bueno allí una imagen de como esta actualmente http://i41.tinypic.com/1z5mauv.jpg
Hi! I guess what could be a problem. In the new version, which I hope will be released this week, it should not. In general, the new version is a lot of code was rewritten, and the functional change - the status can be changed through the menu. Old bugs will not, but there will be new! : D Thank you for your message!
Hola, la versión 1.7 no se instala correctamente: luis@luis-desktop:~/.pidgin-toobars-1.7$ ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ar... ar checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for intltool-update... no checking for intltool-merge... no checking for intltool-extract... no configure: error: The intltool scripts were not found. Please install intltool.
"Please install intltool." :)