okay , you freshly installed a multiprotocol messenger called “PIDGIN” and you added your login details and start chatting but you want some extra features .
well pidgin plugins may help you , here is 5 plugins you should checkout
1 : guifications
a toaster popup plugin .. it notify you when any one start typing or logged in
link : https://www.guifications.org/
2 : text replacement
be smart use this plugin to auto-correct common mistakes like you mistypes about in place of about then it will automatically correct it
3 : enhanced history
An enhanced versoin of the history plugin. Grants ability to select the number of previous conversations to show instead of just one.
link https://www.guifications.org/
4 : pidgin encrypt
encrypt you all out going and incoming messages using this plugin
download link http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pidgin-encrypt/Windows%20Self-Installer/pidgin-encryption-3.1.exe
project home : http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net
5 : music tracker
last but not the least use this plugin to set current playing track as your status
