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Take advantage of the fact that our buddy icon filenames are SHA-1 hashes to avoid recalculating them in the bonjour protocol. I noticed that it wasn't calculating the hash correctly anyway while doing this.

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.