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[gaim-migrate @ 9736] IM Image, WYSIWYG. It's still somewhat buggy, although the worse problems are with oscar's direct connect. We could always yank oscar's im image flag if we think it will cause too many bug reports. I made the GaimImgstore struct opque. I modified oscar's sending function to parse im images better, and everything seems to work. I made it write some errors to the conversation if you try to send an image and you aren't direct connected. That's just a hack until you can set formatting flags on a per conversation bases. There's a scrolling bug I haven't tracked down. I think it may exist normally and this just causes it better. It's worth noting jabber also uses this for pics in profiles, although I never did find a test case. Hopefully some other stuff can use this soon too, maybe Yahoo! pics in profiles or something. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Tim Ringenbach <marv@pidgin.im>
date Mon, 17 May 2004 06:47:20 +0000 (2004-05-17)
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Gaim Smiley Themes Documentation
Sean M. Egan
5 Jan 2003

Version 0.60 of Gaim brings up all themable smileys.  In the preferences dialog, a user can choose from a selection of looks his smileys will take.  This guide is to serve as a reference to those interested in creating third-party smiley themes.  

(SME: I'm doing this at 6:30AM; I'm tired, but I can't sleep.  Someone make sure I fix this up to make sure it all makes sense when I'm not tired anymore.  Right now it's mostly just unassembled thoughts)

Your theme should be contained in a single directory.  This directory will be installed in the Gaim smiley theme directory (SME: There should probably be a $HOME/.gaim/smileys/ that the theme could go in too.).  This directory will contain a file called `theme' that specifies the theme and image (SME: And possibly sound) files that are used by the theme.  The format of the `theme' file is as follows.

The beginning of the file contains some metainformation about the theme in the format

Key=Value

Valid keys include:
Name - Name of the theme
Description - Description of the theme
Icon - An image used to represent the theme in the theme selector UI
Author - The author's name

Following this meta-information are "sml" groups.  A "sml" group is a group of smileys that will be shown together.  For example, each protocol has its own "sml" group (MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, etc.).  The name of the group is surrounded in square brackets, and each line beneath it (until the next sml group or the end of the file) defines a smiley.
Each line of the group starts with a filename of the icon (SME: Or sound?) followed by a space-delimited list of the characters that represent it. 

Example:
[AIM/ICQ]
smiley.png  :) :-)

In the smiley selector UI, each icon will only be shown once, and the first string representing it will be used.  To keep a smiley out of the selector altogether, make the first two characters of the line "! " followed by the filename and emoticons.