Comment 28 for bug 1040259

If it helps, I have partial pidgin support working (I'll attach a debdiff). It implements status changing and indicators for IM messages with buddies.

Ran into two bugs so far which kind of blocked my progress a bit:

Can't unload/reload plugin without a crash: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1065169
Can't use GdkPixbuf for icons even though they implement GIcon: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686201

The GdkPixbuf serialization code could probably be implemented in indicator-messages if upstream doesn't want it.

Doesn't have:
- Chat Support (should be similar to IM support but I've never used chats in pidgin)
- Buddy Icons because of the bug above
- Indicators for conversations that don't have buddies associated (not really sure how that works)
- Occasionally loses the first message (maybe related to the last item?)

Also a fair bit of debugging code which should probably be removed once the messaging-menu support is complete.