Manhattan Smilies Gaim (and Adium) smiley themes
I've created a smiley theme for the Gaim multi-network instant messenger client. You can snag it from my site. Since I cannot distribute the icons with it, of course, you'll need to have Manhattan Smilies and Manhattan Smilies 2 in your collection -- if you'd like me to send them to you, please don't hesitate to ask!
Once you've downloaded my theme, extract the contents to ~/.gaim/smileys/ (or %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\.gaim\smileys on Windows). Then open up the Manhattan Smilies 1 and 2 zip files and copy all the icons in the PNGs folder whose names end with "_16.png" to the manhattan_smilies folder that now exists under your .gaim/smileys/ folder. Then check your Gaim preferences, on the Smiley Themes tab.
If you have any trouble please ask in a comment here, and I'll do my best to help -- I can't promise anything, though, as my time is limited.
I plan on doing Shanghai Tech Smilies next, and then after that I might figure out how to make Adium icon themes if there's any interest.
Enjoy!
UPDATE! I made one for Adium for Mac OS X, too. You can get it here if you're interested. I didn't do as much testing on this one, either, since Mac OS X is no longer my primary OS, but it seems to work. You'll need to extract the zip file, and right- or control-click the resulting "Manhattan Smilies.AdiumEmoticonset" bundle that appears and choose "Show Package Contents". You'll then need to copy all the "_16.png" files there, as mentioned above. Then you should be able to double-click the "Manhattan Smilies.AdiumIconset" bundle and Adium will load it up for you.
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tamashii on Apr 04, 2007
This is great (if you use that client)!
I have been trying to figure out the scripting to do the very same thing for Adium, using Shanghai Tech Smilies. For some reason, despite utilizing an almost exact copy of the code from a working emoticon script, I just can’t get it to work.
Any Adium script geniuses here that could school me on making such packages for Adium (I am also trying to make an emoticon set of SPeCks).
fdivbug on Apr 04, 2007
I was able to make an Adium set of Manhattan Smilies pretty easily (and I updated the blog post to reflect that). I'd be happy to take a look at your Emoticons.plist for Shanghai Tech and see if I can figure out why it's not working, if you'd like.
tamashii on Apr 04, 2007
Ok - Here's a question to the chefs:
If a freeware/open source program allows people to modify and/or add custom imagery to certain aspects of the software, can the Free Delivery sets be included in the package (in this case, the "emoticons" script and imagery linked with it)?
If the answer is no, then making an emoticon script for Adium that merely calls the Shanghai Tech Smilies on the user's system would be pointless.
josh
on Apr 04, 2007
That's pretty darn cool. Good stuff!
tamashii on Apr 04, 2007
I'm taking that as a yes, LOL!
Ok, I will do more research on my end before sending on the stuff to you for assistance, fdivbug (mostly due to my wanting to make a set using my own creations as well).
fdivbug on Apr 04, 2007
tamashii,
I consider including the icons with the theme to be redistributing, and that's forbidden by the license without the express permission of Firewheel Design, since it might allow people to circumvent IconBuffet in obtaining those icons. Admittedly, we wouldn't be providing the full set -- just the lowest-resolution PNGs, in my emoticon themes for Gaim and Adium -- but I'd still want very explicit permission before we posted the emoticon themes with the icons included. That would increase their utility and value to non-IBers, however, which might send some more new people IB's way...
But, if you just send me the Emoticons.plist, I could fill it in with my own download of Shanghai Tech.
justG on Apr 05, 2007
@ tamashii: SPeCks are really cute, I must have them. They look like something I might be able to get as plush toys from thinkgeek. =)
tamashii on Apr 05, 2007
@fdivbug: that's what my question was to the chef - whether they would allow the inclusion of the set in an open-source, non-profit application as part of an add-on to that application. We are not redistributing the full set that you can get here.
While Josh didn't come out and say, "Yes, you may include one size of a set of Free Delivery Icons to be embedded in a package for use with a free program", I consider two things basically saying it is OK to do so:
(1) Josh just said it was not only pretty darn cool, but also that it was Good Stuff!
(2) Anyone using an Free Delivery icon set on their website is essentially redistributing them as anyone visiting said site could simply copy the images off the site.
I believe the No Redistribution clause is referring to taking the whole set, all versions and sizes of the set as it is downloaded and posting that entire set in a way that can be collected outside of IconBuffet's Free Delivery service. Having a handful of icons from a given set (.GIF, 16x16) embedded inside a Package is not redistributing the whole set.
fdivbug on Apr 05, 2007
@tamashii:
"""(2) Anyone using an Free Delivery icon set on their website is essentially redistributing them as anyone visiting said site could simply copy the images off the site."""
That's a very good point and I hadn't really thought of it that way. I'll probably load the icons into the themes and put them on my site for download since then I'd at least have some modicum of control over their distribution in the event the chefs tell me to knock it off.
I would vastly prefer an official word from them on the matter, though. Chefs?