This patch comes from the combined work of contributors minstrel, NightFox, bob007, salieff, and nops (these are their trac usernames). I have made some minor tweaks to the patch, but these shouldn't be a problem. This patch needs some TLC before we can merge it anywhere else; it adds API so it must hit im.pidgin.pidgin.next.minor before hitting im.pidgin.pidgin. Refs #4508.