annotate README.CVS @ 10108:f0100b414d98

[gaim-migrate @ 11141] Two things: a. Added Enter as a gtk_binding to GtkIMHtml. This fixes everything. Input methods now work. The "Enter sends" and "Ctrl-Enter sends" preferences were removed and defaulted to yes and no respectively, BUT, in a very super-cool turn of events, you can now add your own bindings to .gtkrc to make WHATEVER YOU WANT send. Awesome. Someone should use g_signal_accumulator_true_handled or something to make profiles and away messages able to insert newlines. b. Removed "Use multi-colored screennames in chats," defaulted to yes, and wrote a nifty algorithm to automatically adjust the colors to accomodate the background (see http://gaim.sf.net/sean/porn-chat.png). People should play around and tweak it a bit. The algorithm takes into consideration the luminosity of the current background and the base hue to use for the screenname in generating the new colors. Note that it does this while maintaining the hues. Someone should optimize this so it skips over the floating point arithmatic when the background color is white. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

If you plan to use gaim CVS, PLEASE read this message in its entirety!

Gaim is a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular release schedule.
Due to the rate of gaim development, CVS undergoes frequent bursts of
massive changes, often leaving behind brokenness and partial
functionality while the responsible developers rewrite some portion of
code or seek to add new features.

What this all boils down to is that CVS _WILL_ sometimes be broken.
Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested in
personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
assistance from the developers!) avoid CVS and use releases.  Since
releases will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using
the newest, shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having
to deal with ugly development bugs that we already know about but
haven't gotten around to fixing.

If you are interested in hacking on gaim, please read README and
HACKING, and take note of the issues in PROGRAMMING_NOTES.  (Note that
they may be somewhat out of date at times.) Win32 developers, please
read README.mingw.

By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  Not
all parts of gaim have yet been documented, but the major subsystems
are falling fast.  If you have doxygen, you can use the Doxyfile in
the toplevel directory to generate pretty documentation.  Otherwise
(or even if you do!), the header files for each subsystem contain
documentation for the functions they contain.  For instance,
conversation.h contains documentation for the entire
gaim_conversation_* API, and account.h contains documentation for the
gaim_account_* API.

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