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[gaim-migrate @ 2521] Please stop asking me this. :-) committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Rob Flynn <gaim@robflynn.com>
date Mon, 15 Oct 2001 05:04:04 +0000
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1 GAIM: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clone Thats Good For The Soul
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3 1 The Basics
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4 1.1 What does 'gaim' stand for?
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5 1.2 Where are my log files stored?
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6 1.3 What are GtkHTML and GtkIMHtml, and why not just use GNOME's
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7 GtkHTML?
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8 1.4 How do I load plugins/perl scripts?
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9 1.5 I'm not a native English speaker and I would like a translated
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10 version of gaim.
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11 1.6 Why can I import my buddylist but not export it?
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13 2 Multiple Connections
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14 2.1 What do you mean by "multiple connections"?
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15 2.2 How do I sign on more than one account?
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16 2.3 How do buddy lists work for multiple connections?
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17 2.4 What's a PRPL?
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18 2.5 How do I use a different protocol?
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20 3 About the Protocols (what they support, and how to do things with them)
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21 3.0 Introduction
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22 3.1 TOC
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23 3.2 Oscar
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24 3.3 Yahoo!
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25 3.4 IRC
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26 3.5 ICQ
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27 3.6 MSN
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28 3.7 Jabber
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29 3.8 Napster
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31 4 Problems
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32 4.1 Sound doesn't work
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33 4.2 Clicking on URLs doesn't open Netscape
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34 4.3 I don't use Netscape
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35 4.4 I have a bug not described here
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37 5 Programming
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38 5.1 I have a patch for gaim!
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39 5.2 I have a plugin/perl script for gaim!
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40 5.3 Can you teach me how to program GTK?
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42 6 Miscellaneous
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43 6.1 Can I talk to you on IM?
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44 6.2 I want to write an IM client. Will you help me?
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45 6.3 I have money. I need software written. Can you help?
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46 6.4 I have hardware here that's not being used. Can you use it?
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47 6.5 I would like to send you beer.
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48 6.6 Are you going to port this to Windows?
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49 6.7 Why no AOL logo?
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50 6.8 Why the GPL?
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51 6.9 What is a wagii?
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52 6.10 What window manager/distribution/other crap do you use?
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53 6.11 Is XX a good hard drive, YY a good monitor and ZZ a good CPU?
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54 6.12 I want to contribute to the effort. Where can I send beer to?
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58 1 The Basics
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60 1.1 What does 'gaim' stand for?
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62 It's basically the letter 'g' tacked on to the beginning of 'AIM' (which is
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63 fairly obvious). G stands for all sorts of good things. Girls, Godzilla, GTK,
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64 graham crackers, whatever.
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66 1.2 Where are my log files stored?
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68 Your logs are stored in $HOME/.gaim/logs/. They had previously been stored in
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69 $HOME/.gaim/YourScreenName/ (e.g. $HOME/.gaim/EWarmenhoven).
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71 1.3 What are GtkHTML and GtkIMHtml, and why not just use GNOME's GtkHTML?
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73 The widget GAIM had previously used to display HTML was called GtkHTML, and
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74 was written by Mark and Jim specifically for GAIM. Over time, Rob and Eric
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75 hacked at it (read: broke it) and it's gotten to be very fragile and fairly
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76 buggy.
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78 One day Eric got pissed off at GtkHTML and decided to rewrite it, and called
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79 it GtkIMHtml (IM to indicate that it should be used in IM clients). He made
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80 it its own separate project, so that other IM clients (like Jabber clients)
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81 could use it. He based it somewhat off of the old GtkHTML and GNOME's GtkHTML.
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83 GNOME's GtkHTML is a very powerful HTML viewer. Because of this, it isn't
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84 well-suited for GAIM. It wouldn't be very good if we let you have IFrames in
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85 your conversation, for example. Also, GNOME's GtkHTML depends on a lot of
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86 GNOME libraries that we don't want to force people to use in GAIM. (There is
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87 a strip-down version, CSCHTML, which doesn't use the GNOME libraries; but the
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88 first objection (that it supports too many tags) still applies.)
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90 1.4 How do I load plugins/perl scripts?
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92 Plugins you had loaded when you quit gaim are loaded again when you start
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93 gaim. To load a new plugin, either click 'Plugins' on the login screen, or
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94 select 'Plugins' from the 'Tools' menu in the buddy list. From there, you
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95 can load and unload plugins, and configure certain ones. If you click on
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96 the 'Load Plugin' button, it will present you with a file dialog, asking
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97 which file you want to load; it will default to looking for a .so file in
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98 the directory plugins get installed to, though you don't have to load a .so
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99 file, and you don't have to load it from that directory.
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101 When you start gaim, all the .pl files in ~/.gaim will be loaded
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102 automatically. You can also load new scripts from the 'Perl' menu in 'Tools'.
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103 From that menu, you can load a new script (similarly to how you loaded a
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104 plugin above), unload all your loaded scripts, and list which scripts you have
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105 loaded.
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107 1.5 I'm not a native English speaker and I would like a translated version of
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108 gaim.
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110 Gaim currently has a few translations (French, Spanish, Korean, and Simplified
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111 Chinese); however, most of them are out of date. If you would like to update
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112 or add a translation of gaim, email or IM either Rob or Eric and they can tell
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113 you how to go about it.
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115 1.6 Why can I import my buddylist but not export it?
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117 Because you don't have to. Gaim, out of the kindness of its sweet little
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118 heart, automagically exports your buddylist for you. You can find a copy
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119 of your list in ~/.gaim/YOURNAME.PROTO.BLIST. For example, if you're
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120 using AIM, and your name is JoeUser, then your buddy list could be found
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121 in: ~/.gaim/JOEUSER.0.blist.
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123 2 Multiple Connections
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125 2.1 What do you mean by "multiple connections"?
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127 Multiple Connections means that it's possible to connect to the AOL servers
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128 using more than one screenname at a time. It's just a way of not having to run
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129 three copies of gaim for each of your screennames.
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131 2.2 How do I sign on more than one account?
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133 The Account Editor controls all of your accounts, and lets you add, delete,
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135 from the 'Tools' menu in the buddy list as 'Accounts'. Simply highlight the
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144 have its own buddy list, which you can add buddies to and remove from. In the
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146 online accounts (unless if you only have one), with its buddy list nested
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147 underneath it.
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153 client, all at the same time. Loading a PRPL is just like loading any other
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156 2.5 How do I use a different protocol?
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161 use, make sure you have the proper PRPL loaded.) Enter in your username (for
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163 the account on by clicking the 'Sign On/Off' button when the account is
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172 a listing of what gaim has implemented with each protocol, please read the
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178 people who developed it), developed by AOL, for clients to use to connect to
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179 the AIM server. It has stopped being supported by AOL (though they do still
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184 you accept a file transfer request). Your buddy list is stored on the server,
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190 Oscar is the protocol that the Windows version of AIM uses (and actually,
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191 ICQ2000 uses it too). It's a closed protocol, meaning that in order for gaim
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192 to use it, someone had to reverse-engineer it. For gaim, the libfaim authors
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196 initial connection, who you send your screenname/password to), the BOS (which
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204 Yahoo! uses a closed protocol; the authors of libyahoo reverse-engineered it
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206 connections, though I'm not entirely sure at which points. It stores your
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207 buddy list on the server, and gaim keeps a locally cached copy. When you sign
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208 on the server and local lists are merged.
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219 have reverse-engineered it, and there are several libraries available. Gaim
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222 and conversations are TCP unless if they are sent through the server. This
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223 means you'll make one UDP connection, and possibly very many TCP connections.
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225 3.6 MSN
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227 MSN is a weird TCP protocol written by Microsoft. It requires multiple
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228 connections and is a real headache :).
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232 Jabber is an open protocol, developed by the Jabber team, and is XML-encoded.
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233 It is a TCP protocol, and you will only ever make one TCP connection. Jabber
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235 it has available (such as AIM or ICQ), and you tell it which service you would
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236 like to use. This way you can have only one connection, but be connected to
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237 AIM and ICQ (among others) several times. Anyone who gives a damn about Open
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238 Source, especially open messaging, should use Jabber. They have the only Open
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239 Source IM server.
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243 Napster is, as you know, the protocol used by that wonderful little program
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244 called napster. You know the one! It's what millions of college kids across
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245 america are using to sastisfy their longing for music :-D. Anyways, gaim supports
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246 it. It's kind of fiunky, though. Napster is a TCP protocol and only requires one
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247 connection to the server. All file transfers, however, are explicitly client to
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248 client. The plugin currently only supports one way file transfer (downloading)
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249 from people who are _not_ firewalled. You can also send private messages to each
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250 other, join chat rooms, browse a user's files, and search. More implementation
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255 4.1 Sound doesn't work
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257 ./configure should autodetect whether or not you have ESD libraries. If you
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258 have them it will compile with them; if not it won't. If it compiles with them
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259 you don't need to be running the ESD daemon; it'll automatically fall back to
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260 using /dev/dsp. Make sure gaim has the proper permissions to talk to /dev/dsp
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261 and /dev/audio though!
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263 4.2 Clicking on URLs doesn't open Netscape
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266 handle remote netscape windows OK), or 'netscape' needs to be in your path.
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272 information about how to send a URL to your browser (source is nice :) ).
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274 4.4 I have a bug not described here
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276 We have a page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/, and from there you
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280 5 Programming
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282 5.1 I have a patch for gaim!
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284 Great! Send it over to the Patches section on our sourceforge page,
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285 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. From there we'll take a look at it (no
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286 promises that it'll get in, but we'll at least take a look at it).
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288 5.2 I have a plugin/perl script for gaim!
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290 Great! Post it to the Patches section on our sourceforge page, and mark it as
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291 a plugin. Then other people will be able to see it and use it. (Make sure that
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292 you understand that your plugin is necessarily GPL'd, and you must provide
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293 source to your plugin.)
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295 5.3 Can you teach me how to program GTK?
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297 Actually, I can't. I'm a very bad teacher. I'm much too impatient. There is a
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298 really great tutorial and API reference on the GTK website though,
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299 http://www.gtk.org/. That's how I learned, anyway.
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304 6.1 Can I talk to you on IM?
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307 we're busy people. We use those screennames as our main screen names, not just
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308 to talk to gaim users. So please, don't IM us for us to answer questions about
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309 Linux. We'd like to be able to answer everyone's questions, but we just don't
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310 have the time. We aren't paid to hack gaim; we do have other jobs. Also,
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311 please don't waste our time with a simple "hi" or "hello." Don't ask if
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312 you can ask a question, just ask it. We'll usually respond.
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314 6.2 I want to write an IM client. Will you help me?
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316 I'll give you advice, but other than that, no (unless you'd like to pay me).
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318 6.3 I have money. I need software written. Can you help?
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321 rob@marko.net (RobFlynn).
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323 6.4 I have hardware here that's not being used. Can you use it?
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325 Most certainly. IM me or email me and I'll tell you where you can ship it to
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326 (I might be able to scratch together shipping money even).
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328 6.5 I would like to send you beer.
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330 OK.
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332 6.6 Are you going to port this to Windows?
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335 Windows (in all its closed-source evilness).
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337 6.7 Why no AOL logo?
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339 AOL's legal staff told us no-no.
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341 6.8 Why the GPL?
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343 I like the GPL.
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345 6.9 What is a wagii?
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347 Interesting question that you ask, there. 'Wagii' is the official celebratory
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348 cry of gaim. Anytime you are feeling happy or excited, just remember all of
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349 the hard work that we have done to provide you with this wonderful, free piece
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350 of software -- as the pure, raw, emotion flows through you, maybe you too will
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351 let out the cry of -- Wagii.
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353 It is also the sound a Penguin Samurai makes :)
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355 6.10 What window manager/distribution/other crap do you use?
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357 Rob uses Red Hat, with Ximian GNOME on top. I dont really like Ximian but I like
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358 Gnome. On top of my Ximian Gnome is Sawfish. Eric hates saw fish. I kinda of
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359 like it even though it makes me mad.
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361 Eric uses debian woody. He uses Enlightenment as his window manager; though
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362 the only reason it would seem that Eric uses X at all is to support having
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363 his 20 Eterms and 4 Mozilla windows open. Oh yeah, and gaim_applet.
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365 6.11 Is XX a good hard drive, YY a good monitor and ZZ a good CPU?
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367 You could send us one and we could tell you... :)
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369 6.12 I want to contribute to the effort. Where can I send beer to?
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371 IM RobFlynn or email him at rob@marko.net.