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[gaim-migrate @ 13992] SF Patch #1332870, from corfe83 "In gtkimhtml.c, in function gtk_smiley_tree_destroy, in the while loop, we go through the tree and add all the nodes to be deleted to a GSList. However, we add them by appending them to the list, but the order of the list doesn't matter. Because GSList's don't keep track of the last item in the list, this means each step of the loop (when we append) we are incrementing through the whole list. In my tests, on closing the preference box, this loop was gone through more than 1,000 times, and at many stages this list it is appending to is well over 50 elements long. I've changed it to prepend items to the list, which works just the same (although destroying items in the tree in a different order), and is much faster (prepend works in O(1) time, as opposed to O(N) time)." I think the moral of the story is, when order doesn't matter, use g_[s]list_prepend instead of g_[s]list_append. 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.