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[gaim-migrate @ 13693] This commit includes a number of changes: 1. Aliases are now used consistently in chats. If the prpl uses unique screen names for chats (e.g. Jabber), then aliases are not used at all. 2. The chat list is now colorized to match the colors used in the chat itself. 3. Buddies are bolded in the chat user list. 4. Buddies are sorted above non-buddies in the chat user list. 5. The chat user list is ellipsized when possible (i.e. on GTK+ 2.6.0 or above). 6. I've accepted patch #1178248, by Matt Amato to add "buddy-added" and "buddy-removed" signals. These were used in my implementation of #3 and #4, to update the GUI when users are added or removed from the buddy list. 7. I've added a "blist-node-aliased" signal that is emitted when a buddy, contact, or chat is aliased. 8. Since it was hard to separate and I need it at some point, I'm letting it slip in... I've changed GaimConversation.log to be a GList named logs. This way, we can have multiple logs for a single conversation. This will be necessary to implement unnamed chat logging in some reasonable fasion (see my notes in the TODO file). committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

This file describes how to compile and run gaim with dbus support.
Hopefully, most of the steps from point 3 will soon be automated.


1. Make sure you have the latest version (0.34) of the dbus library
   installed, including glib bindings.  

   http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus


2. Compile gaim

   ./configure --enable-dbus
   make
   make install


3. Configure your dbus instalation for gaim

   A. Find your dbus session configuration file, usually

      /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

   B. In that file, find the <servicedir> section.  This section
      contains the directory that stores files describing services,
      usually

      /usr/share/dbus-1/services

   C. Copy src/dbus-gaim.service to that directory

   D. Edit the dbus-gaim.service file you've just copied, and replace
      the path in the "Exec=" line with the path to your gaim
      executable.


4. Start Session DBUS if you haven't done it already

   eval `dbus-launch --session`
   export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

   These commands will set the two above shell variables.  These
   variables must be set before running any dbus-aware programs.

Start gaim as usual.  To communicate with it, use "gaim-send".  When
you execute gaim-send, the dbus system will automatically start a gaim
process if one is not running already.