KTp/Components/Chat Window/Themes

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KDE-Telepathy's chat window supports Adium's messageStyle themes.

Installation

1. download the desired theme from here
2. extract the archive content to ~/.kde4/share/apps/ktelepathy/styles/
3. select the desired theme from chat window's settings

Supported and Unsupported themes

Here is a list to keep track of the status of Adium themes on kde-telepathy's chat window.

Rating	ID	Theme Name	Problems	Install
BRONZE	4042	1337	Does not show consecutive status messages
SILVER	4987	Adium Matte	Consecutive messages are not in the bubble
SILVER	7890	ANNA	Header covers the top messages that are impossible to read
GOLD	7925	Andromeda	Header covers the top messages but there is a button to hide the header
PLATINUM	1385	Candybars	-
PLATINUM	3306	Cinematic	-
BRONZE	4728	Dinosaur Comics	No dinosaurs in the chat. Rename {t,T}emplate.html to fix the dinosaurs problem
PLATINUM	7366	Durarara	-
GOLD	2141	Ethereal	Files are unzipped in a subfolder. DefaultBackgroundIsTransparent key in Info.plist should be used
PLATINUM	2463	GoneDark/GoneDark Polarized	-
GOLD	7435	Hard Bubbles	Header covers the top messages but there is a button to hide the header. Some variants seems to be broken (White, White Bubbling, Modern, and relative Alt *)
BRONZE	8063	Lighty	Does not show baloons
GOLD	7780	Mnmlsm	Header covers the top messages but being semi-transparent you can read it
PLATINUM	6638	Mochastyle	-
GOLD	5367	Model Portfolio	The theme seems to be working, but there is an ugly line in the middle that should be on the side. The DisplayNameForNoVariant key from Info.plist should be taken into account in the kcm
PLATINUM	3629	Modern Bubbling/Modern Bubbling Compact	Header covers the top messages but there is a button to hide the header
RUBBISH	2158	Modern View	Renaming {t,T}emplate.html becomes gold. The hide link in the header is broken (opens a browser instead of hiding the header)
BRONZE	6218	NoteBoard	Does not show consecutive status messages
GOLD	6938	Pretty Simple	Scrollbar goes outside on top
PLATINUM	198	Pushpin/Pushpin Vintage	-
PLATINUM	6766	Ravenant	-
SILVER	1779	Ruler	Consecutive messages are not in the bubble
RUBBISH	7936	SimpleSky	Invalid style. Renaming html files to uppercase becomes platinum
GOLD	2564	SmoothSeparateLines	The screenshots show that the sender should be displayed for every message, but it's not for consecutive message. I suspect that this could happen for other themes
BRONZE	6058	Sticker Style	Does not show baloons. Renaming {S,s}tyle folder becomes platinum
GOLD	4745	Succint	Header covers the top messages that are hard to read
RUBBISH	7997	Taz	"Taz.AdiumMessageStyle" is invalid style! Renaming {i,I}ncoming becomes Platinum. We should check the colours of the status message using this theme!
BRONZE	345	aNon	Does not show status messages
RUBBISH	7003	coly/coly.names	The name in the dropdown menu is wrong (Actually because the Info.plist file is info.plist instead). Default font is so small that it is impossible to read anything. Using a custom font aligment are completely wrong. Renaming {M,m}ain.css becomes platinum
PLATINUM	1907	h4x0r	-
PLATINUM	8259	iMessages	Very slow to load
GOLD	7756	xMous	Timestamps are very small with default font
SILVER	5474	yMous	Silver
BRONZE	5812	zMous	Timestamps are very small with default font. Status messages are not shown

Other Themes

Theme Name	Rating	Problems
Gone Dark (from Adium repo)	Platinum	Not sure if it is a bug but the "Jabber" text appears over the separator line using custom fonts
Mockie (from Adium repo)	Platinum
Smooth Operator (from Adium repo)	Silver	Header covers the top messages but there is a button to hide the header. There are a few visual issues (different in different variants)
Stockholm (from Adium repo)	Gold	The avatars seem to be outside of the window
minimal_mod (from Adium repo)	Platinum	Variant "SenderColor SingleLine" displays "%sender%" for status messages, for the rest is perfect, the header covers the top messages, but disappears automatically when you scroll to the top
Renkoo (default theme)	Platinum
SimKete (default theme for group chats)	Silver	Appended messages are wrong, The DisplayNameForNoVariant key from Info.plist should be taken into account in the kcm

Rating:

• Platinum: Perfect
• Gold: Perfect but with some minor glitch
• Silver: Usable, but with some major display problem
• Bronze: Almost usable but with some major bug (messages/status not displayed, etc) or serious graphic bugs
• Rubbish: Unusable