# GSoC '21 with Pidgin: Project Report

Journey as Google Summer of Code 2021 Student with Pidgin: Project Report


**Project Overview:**
Pidgin's primary use case is that it acts as a messaging client for multiple chat
networks. This project proposal aims to ease the account creation/edit process
through an assistant that uses a GtkAssistant based flow and creating gtk widgets for each page.

![GSoC Dashboard.jpg](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1629735946609/d--lUaVRp.jpeg)

**Project Goals:**
The present account creation process seems a bit intimidating to the non-technical users, so this project idea would focus on making the account adding process easier for everyone. This assistant would help users to add their accounts into pidgin with the protocol of their choice. This assistant would have multiple pages made up of gtk widgets which would guide a user in adding their account. Introducing this feature would attract more users to add their accounts in Pidgin with
ease.


![Screenshot from 2021-07-16 11-12-04.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1626431323187/_nS7KueEO.png)



Page 1 of the Account Assistant (Protocol Page):

![Screenshot from 2021-07-15 02-06-57.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1626436491013/hJ7XLEglV.png)


**File Structure:**


![Screenshot from 2021-07-16 17-57-04.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1626438443407/czQHIhy49.png)

Page 2 & Page 3 Wireframes: (Shown to Mentor in the last Google meet)


![Untitled Diagram.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1626437697788/uTGLAwP_z.png)


Page 2 of Account Assistant (Account adding page):

XML file UI of the second page of assistant made using Glade

![Screenshot from 2021-07-16 17-41-16.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1626437740046/-1oxjG5TN.png)