Just built out a VERY quick and dirty Smiley plugin for Pidgin. It adds all of the Github emojis to your chats.

You can find it at: https://github.com/benwoody/github-pidgin-emoji

A list of emoticons can be found at http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/

Fun Stuffs

Below be the code snippet to generate the Pidgin theme file

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Dir.entries(Dir.pwd).each { |d| File.open('github-emoji/theme', 'a') { |f| f.puts "#{d} :#{d.chomp('.png')}:" } }