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[gaim-migrate @ 14026] Switch from using our old GaimGtkDisclosure widget to using the official GtkExpander widget. It works better and should make us look more uniform with other gtk apps. To maintain compatability with gtk < 2.4, I grabbed the gtkexpander.c and gtkexpander.h files from gtk+ CVS. I haven't tested compiling on a computer with gtk < 2.4 yet, so it's possible we'll need to get more stuff from gtk+ CVS. For future reference, gtkexpander.h was not modified, and gtkexpander.c was only modified to check if version is > 2.4 then do nothing. I also changed the #includes to use <> instead of "" committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)