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[gaim-migrate @ 17643] SF Patch #1469315 from R.Ramkumar - andyetitmoves "This is a small patch to make sounds enabled when available an optional feature. The use case is: Sounds being annoying, I would like them only when I am not seeing the comp. When I am on the comp, I have guifications/gaim-osd to inform me of whatever happens, and that happens to be less intrusive (especially when music is on :) )." The patch originally used: "Play sounds:" ("Always", "When available", "When away") I changed them to the strings KingAnt suggested: "Play sounds:" ("Always", "Only when available", "Only when not available") The ones from the patch submitter are not quite as clear, but they're shorter. What does everyone think about this? committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and 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 Gaim
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.

This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
with.

It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
tree, which is a much cleaner solution.