Emoticons for qutIM 0.3-0.4 from QIP 2012.
Light background of chat lines is necessary to avoid border colours collisions.
Copy directory qip_smiles
into directory ~/.local/share/qutim/emoticons/
cp -r qip_smiles ~/.local/share/qutim/emoticons/qip_smiles
Now in the settings of qutIM go to tab Appearance > Emoticons (Оформление > Смайлы) and select qip_smiles
in the dropdown menu.