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[gaim-migrate @ 17383] Fixed two issues which stem from changes when the Yahoo protocol upgrades were done; I'm fairly sure this properly fixes issue worked-around in [17080]. Yahoo buddies on the Ignore list were being added to the last group sent from the server. On Yahoo, an Ignored contact can never be on your contact list. These contacts should be noted locally as on the Deny list and, accordingly, not added to the contact list. I added some comments about the keys and their order sent here based on my observations; they seem to generalize across a couple test cases I ran. See the comments themselves for details. This fixes Adium Trac ticket #5470. 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.