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Change the imgstore and by extension, then the buddy icon code to take over the references to icon data instead of calling g_memdup(). This eliminates g_memdup()ing and g_free()ing in ~50% of the callers. For the rest, it's no worse (they now do a g_memdup() instead of the core) and they may be able to be modified in the future to avoid that.

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.