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Kir Kolyshkin figured out that we need to initialize the dbus threading to avoid some crashing. It turns out that this is because gnome-vfs (which magically gets used when you use GTK+ on a GNOME desktop) uses dbus from several threads. Fixes #7538

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.