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If the cached buddy icon can't be loaded, delete the preferences which point to it. Among other things, this fixes OSCAR buddy icon retrieval when the cache has been removed - since previously the icon hash was kept around and was used to determine that (so far as the prpl could tell) no icon retrieval was needed, libpurple would never have an icon for the contact.

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.