diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.9/debian/control pidgin-2.10.9/debian/control
--- pidgin-2.10.9/debian/control	2014-02-10 16:18:03.000000000 +0100
+++ pidgin-2.10.9/debian/control	2014-08-30 22:58:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
  xsltproc, doxygen, libfarstream-0.1-dev (>= 0.1.1),
  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev,
  network-manager-dev (>= 0.9.0) [linux-any], dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0),
- libsqlite3-dev (>= 3.3), libidn11-dev, ca-certificates
+ libsqlite3-dev (>= 3.3), libidn11-dev, ca-certificates,
+ libmessaging-menu-dev, libunity-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pidgin.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/pidgin.git
diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.9/debian/prefs.xml pidgin-2.10.9/debian/prefs.xml
--- pidgin-2.10.9/debian/prefs.xml	2014-02-06 17:17:11.000000000 +0100
+++ pidgin-2.10.9/debian/prefs.xml	2014-08-30 22:58:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
                                 <pref name='browser' type='string' value='custom' />
                         </pref>
                         <pref name='plugins'>
+                            <pref name='loaded' type='pathlist'>
+                                <item value='/usr/lib/pidgin/unity.so'/>
                                 <item value='/usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so' />
                         </pref>
                 </pref>
diff -Nru pidgin-2.10.9/debian/rules pidgin-2.10.9/debian/rules
--- pidgin-2.10.9/debian/rules	2014-05-20 17:34:04.000000000 +0200
+++ pidgin-2.10.9/debian/rules	2014-08-30 22:58:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 	    --enable-cap --with-system-ssl-certs=/etc/ssl/certs \
 	    --enable-perl --with-zephyr=/usr --enable-dbus --enable-gnutls=no \
 	    --enable-nss=yes --enable-cyrus-sasl --enable-vv --enable-farsight \
-	    --enable-tcl --enable-tk \
+	    --enable-tcl --enable-tk --enable-unity \
 	    --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) \
 	    --with-dynamic-prpls=bonjour,gg,irc,jabber,msn,myspace,mxit,novell,oscar,sametime,simple,yahoo,zephyr # disable silc
 ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS),linux)