Howto update gaim yahoo emoticon

I happen to visit yahoo messenger website

http://messenger.yahoo.com/hiddenemoticons.php

several weeks ago and notice that there are some new emoticons that are not available on the bundled emoticon in gaim. The newest addition is showing a puppy face by typing :o3

If you type those in your IM windows and do not see a puppy face then you don’t have the complete yahoo emoticon set yet.

I have download before “updated and corrected yahoo” theme by Kshitij Bhardwaj but it still lack the new puppy smilie and miss the american flag smilie, so I add the file yahoo_puppy.gif and edit the theme file accordingly.

First grab the puppy gif file from the link above. Just right click when your mouse is over the puppy icon and select “save image as”. I name the file yahoo_puppy.gif and save it in my home directory

Second you have to find where is your smiley directory. For me it is /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys

I used updated-and-corrected yahoo theme so I go inside that directory and copy the yahoo_puppy.gif file into that directory

Last but not least edit the theme file to include this entry :

yahoo_puppy.gif :o3

I put the entry after the yahoo_pumpkin entry to keep it sorted.

I have the zipped theme files but I haven’t find out how to attach it to this blog. So for the time being the instruction above have to do.