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This may or may not fix a crash that may or may not affect the version of GTK+ we ship on Windows, but either way (font_name ? font_name : NULL) is a pretty silly thing to do when font_name is a gchar *. So let's go with (font_name ? font_name : "") instead, if this causes problems we can always back it out.

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.