Gnome Shell Pidgin extension by KageSenshi The extension utilize pidgin's dbus API, to intergrate Pidgin into the Gnome shell. I only did some rough test with it only on my Fedora 15 machine, but I believe it should work ok everywhere else. Install: mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/pidgin@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org cp extension.js metadata.json ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/pidgin@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org and then restart Gnome shell (Alt+F2 type r and hit enter)