At the time when i joined the team after the training i saw almost every bodies computer has some funny looking characters popping up. I amazed how they done that. First i thought that its may be some desktop widget. So i searched for gnome widgets to end in nothing. Later one day i asked one guy about the secret behind this, Then he told that these are gaim guification themes and also he gave me the links to download them.

Gaim guifications are toaster popup plugin for Gaim! . You can find more about Guifications at http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/Guifications also download the themes from http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=92888&atid=676821 . You can download the zipped theme file then unzip it and them place it in .gaim/guifications/themes in your home directory. After placing the theme in that directory take gaim and then Tools–>Plugin–>Guification–>Configure plugin . You can see a pop up window with several tabs, Select themes, You can see the name of the theme that you downloaded and placed in the theme directory check it and close the window. Now you can see the funny character popping up saying your friend is away, idle … you have an im etc …

So have fun …………….. Please place a comment if you have any doubt in getting this work