InstallingThemesFromAdiumxtrasCom

Enabling linux browsers to install themes directly from adiumxtras.com
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Updated Nov 2, 2009 by nbdar...@gmail.com

Introduction

To install themes directly, your must enable adiumxtra:// protocol handling in your browser to handle links like this:

adiumxtra://www.adiumxtras.com/download/6227

This tutorial consume, that adium2pidgin conventor place in /usr/local/bin/adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py on your system

Gnome

Run in terminal:

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/command "/usr/local/bin/adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py %s"
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/enabled true
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/needs_terminal false

Firefox

Go to about:config, right-click, select 'Add', select 'String', type: network.protocol-handler.app.adiumxtra click 'Ok', type /usr/local/bin/adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py

Then right-click, select 'Boolean', type network.protocol-handler.external.adiumxtra, then select 'true'

More information (about Windows), and more information

Epiphany

Add:

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.adiumxtra","/usr/local/bin/adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py");
pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.adiumxtra",false);

to /usr/share/epiphany-browser/default-prefs.js

Comment by matthews...@gmail.com, Feb 22, 2010

Perfect!

Comment by helen1...@gmail.com, Feb 23, 2010

thank you for the instructions ))

Comment by luth...@gmail.com, Apr 17, 2010

Instructions where successful, and when I click install on adium xtras I get the option to use adium2pidgin, but when I click ok nothing happens?

Comment by grahamgr...@gmail.com, May 10, 2010

google chrome?

Comment by luc1k...@gmail.com, Jun 30, 2010

same as luth.bj

firefox

Comment by iilan...@gmail.com, Aug 12, 2010

can anyone tell me how to use this on WINDOWS :-/

Comment by jayendra...@gmail.com, Aug 19, 2010

Nothing is happening after i click on install and click ok

Comment by iqp...@gmail.com, Nov 6, 2010

Now，how to use it on Windows Runtime？？ Can it be EXE for users on winodws，Thank you！

Comment by sers...@gmail.com, Dec 7, 2010

@jayendra.rakesh

You have to set executing permission at adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py

Comment by zeskmar...@gmail.com, Dec 26, 2010

Please Tell me how to use plugin adium2pidgin-theme-convert.py on the window.Thank.

Comment by stoo...@gmail.com, Jan 21, 2011

Can you make it so we can just command line the whole thing? Would be much much MUCH simpler. I can't figure out who to make the thing work on Windows with the custom protocol bs.

Comment by rhaadcof...@gmail.com, Apr 29, 2011

I am running Debian (squeeze) on a PPC mac mini and cannot seem to get this to work at all. I've tried using Iceweasel (firefox clone) and epiphany and it asks me what application I want to use and nothing happens.

Comment by rock4f3...@gmail.com, May 14, 2011

so no one is gonna help with the windows install?

Comment by fim...@freenet.de, Sep 11, 2011

Installing Themes From Adiumxtras.Com Enabling linux browsers to install themes directly from adiumxtras.com

--> WINDOWS PLZ 2 !!11 ;)

Comment by colorado...@gmail.com, Dec 1, 2011

how can we do this in windows?

Comment by c8n8...@yahoo.de, Jan 12, 2012

Despite of some typo (missing : in the type: requests), this is a very clear documentation. Thanks for this tool and the describtion!

sadly ... the how-to obviously doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.10 no more ... seems that paths or handler names are different. Googling for hours didn't brought up anything new to provide here ... so now I am deeply frustrated having wasted so many time dreaming of adium chat bubbles in pidgin ...

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