I’m a really big fan of Pidgin IM client because for me it’s open source and it works really well.  But the downfall of this is that the interface isn’t that great in my opinion but I have found a way to give it a much better look and I will show you how to do this.

Before we begin, make sure you have Pidgin installed and other plugins, I recommend Facebook and Musictracker plugins.

Also one more thing before we start customizing is to make sure you back up this folder “C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin”

After you have done that, exit out of pidgin and lets get to customizing!

Browse to this location C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin and the contents should be like the one in the screenshot (left).

Now download these files, I edited them my self so what you will have to do is just drag and drop and replace all the files.  Download

You can either extract it to: C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin or just extract the compressed file and drag and drop, either way will work.

After that is complete, just run pidgin and everything should work just fine, you should have new icons and such.

If all done correctly, it should look something like this, depending on your configuration

If you have any problems implementing this new theme into pidgin, feel welcome to comment below and I will try to help you the best that I can.