pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension

Make Pidgin IM conversations appear in the Gnome Shell message tray

Features

Supports Chats and IMs for now (i.e. no file transfers or attentions)
User icons
User status as secondary icon
Sends typing state
Shows unread messages count
Tries to restore unread messages count after screen lock/unlock
Search provider for buddys from connected accounts (can be disabled from extension preferences)

Issues

Messages appear unseen in Pidgin after expanding notification in message tray. Don't know how to set unseen state in Pidgin
No notifications on locked screen even if notification settings allow it. Because Gnome Shell disables all extensions on screen lock

Supported Gnome Shell Versions

v31: 3.10 - 3.30
v32: 3.32
v36: 3.36

Installation

Requirements

Because notifications used in this extension are based on Telepathy clien ones, shipped with gnome-shell, Telepathy typelib must be installed.

As for Ubuntu 20.04 this is gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 and gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 packages.

GNOME Shell Extensions

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/782/pidgin-im-integration/

Manual

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
cd $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
git clone git://github.com/muffinmad/pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension.git pidgin@muffinmad

Restart GNOME Shell and enable "Pidgin IM integration" extension

JKomoroski/pidgin-im-gnome-shell-extension