Switched to pidgin (.pet), lost sound and emoticons

[Djof]

Hi everyone... I seem to have a problem with pidgin: after downloading the pet from petget, both sound and emoticons aren't working anymore ... can anyone help? Thanks in advance

[Djof]

The sound part is fixed.. seems like the wavplay%s command was missing.. i added it in the sounds tab of the preferences and it works

[qkall]

well the icons can be added manually... they should added to the .purple file... and you can download the icons from bunch of sites.. i think i got mine from customize.org... otherwise google should turn up something.

[Djof]

ok... thanks! .. I was thinking about copying the stock msn emoticons using my windows computer... I'll see.. thanks!

[SirDuncan]

The package in the repository is incomplete. If you search the forum, you should find a package for Pidgin that includes all the images and the sound works out of the box. I don't know the link off the top of my head, though.

[qkall]

i found it last night.. its one of the most up to date pidgin..

http://puppylinux.ca/bugs/pidgin-2.3.1.pet

[Djof]

thanks qkall.. This is waaay better.. is there any way to notice users that the pet package of the repository is broken/incomplete

[TNTtrev]

I was having the exact same problems with Pidgin using the .pet from the Pet-Package manager. They really should fix the links and update it to the new one.

Anyways, I'm still having a problem with the sound. I know it's configure properly because I listen to my CDs through my media player. I'm running the XFCE window manager if that's got anything to do with it.

[Djof]

maybe, I say maybe the wavplay%s is nor entered properly in the sounds section of the pidgin preferences ???