annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 26342:d6b2944f04b3

s/category/type/ and s/muc/chat/ in the core and gateway type is a string. 'type' seems a more reasonable name (category and type are fairly specific XMPP-isms even though this is basically only ever going to be useful for XMPP). Changing the gateway type (i.e. prpl identifier) to a string means adding them doesn't require minor bumps (and sane fallback methods should be implementable).

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.