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[gaim-migrate @ 15978] Holy cow this is crazy. 34 files changed, 5760 insertions(+), 8517 deletions(-) * Non-blocking I/O for all of oscar. That includes normal FLAP connections as well as file transfers and direct IM. * Kick-ass file transfer and direct IM. Either party can request the connection. Gaim will try both the "public" IP and the "client" IP. It'll fall back to transferring through a proxy if that fails. Should be relatively few memleaks (I didn't have a lot of confidence in the non-memleakiness of the old code). And the code is reasonably generic, so it shouldn't be too much work to add voice chat. This might still be a LITTLE buggy, but it shouldn't be too bad. If anything, file transfer will be more buggy than direct IM. And sending a file will be more buggy than receiving a file. Bug reports with a series of steps to reproduce are welcome. * I merged OscarData and aim_session_t * Somewhere between 50 and 100 hours of work. 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.