Back in November we posted a Pidgin plugin called Pidgin Embedded Video which transforms links to videos from YouTube and other video websites into videos embedded directly into the Pidgin conversation window. Today I stumbled upon a patched Pidgin Embedded Video which also displays images from links into the Pidgin conversation window. So when someone sends you a link to an image you don't have to click it as the image will be displayed directly into the Pidgin conversation window.
Update: you can now install Pidgin Embedded video with image support from the Frasten PPA: https://launchpad.net/%7Efrasten/+archive/ppa
1. Install the dependencies required to compile it:
These are the packages required to compile Pidgin Embedded video + Image view. I assume you already have all the build packages installed (build-essentials and so on)!
a) For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx or 10.10 Maverick Meerkat:
sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libglib2.0-dev libwebkit-dev libcurl4-openssl-devb) For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala or older (not tested):
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"In the command above, replace "YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE" with your Ubuntu version (karmic, jaunty and so on).
And then:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 2D9A3C5B
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libglib2.0-dev libwebkit-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev2. Compile Pidgin Embedded video + Image view
cd
wget http://geekr.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview.tar.gz
tar -xvf pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview.tar.gz
cd pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install3. That's it with the compilation. Now you'll have to enable the plugin: in Pidgin, go to Tools > Plugins and enable "Pidgin Embedded Video".
[via Linuxundich]
