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committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
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1 GAIM: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clone Thats Good For The Soul |
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4 1.1 What does 'gaim' stand for? |
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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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13 2.1 What do you mean by "multiple connections"? |
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14 2.2 How do I sign on more than one account? |
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15 2.3 How do buddy lists work for multiple connections? |
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16 2.4 What's a PRPL? |
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19 3 About the Protocols (what they support, and how to do things with them) |
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20 3.0 Introduction |
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21 3.1 TOC |
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22 3.2 Oscar |
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23 3.3 Yahoo! |
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24 3.4 IRC |
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25 3.5 ICQ |
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26 3.6 MSN |
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27 3.7 Jabber |
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30 4 Problems |
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31 4.1 Sound doesn't work |
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32 4.2 Clicking on URLs doesn't open Netscape |
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33 4.3 I don't use Netscape |
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34 4.4 I have a bug not described here |
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36 5 Programming |
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37 5.1 I have a patch for gaim! |
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38 5.2 I have a plugin/perl script for gaim! |
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39 5.3 Can you teach me how to program GTK? |
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41 6 Miscellaneous |
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42 6.1 Can I talk to you on IM? |
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43 6.2 I want to write an IM client. Will you help me? |
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44 6.3 I have money. I need software written. Can you help? |
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45 6.4 I have hardware here that's not being used. Can you use it? |
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46 6.5 I would like to send you beer. |
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47 6.6 Are you going to port this to Windows? |
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48 6.7 Why no AOL logo? |
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49 6.8 Why the GPL? |
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50 6.9 What is a wagii? |
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51 6.10 What window manager/distribution/other crap do you use? |
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52 6.11 Is XX a good hard drive, YY a good monitor and ZZ a good CPU? |
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61 It's basically the letter 'g' tacked on to the beginning of 'AIM' (which is |
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62 fairly obvious). G stands for all sorts of good things. Girls, Godzilla, GTK, |
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63 graham crackers, whatever. |
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67 Your logs are stored in $HOME/.gaim/logs/. They had previously been stored in |
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72 The widget GAIM had previously used to display HTML was called GtkHTML, and |
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74 hacked at it (read: broke it) and it's gotten to be very fragile and fairly |
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80 could use it. He based it somewhat off of the old GtkHTML and GNOME's GtkHTML. |
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91 Plugins you had loaded when you quit gaim are loaded again when you start |
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109 Gaim currently has a few translations (French, Spanish, Korean, and Simplified |
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111 or add a translation of gaim, email or IM either Rob or Eric and they can tell |
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236 called napster. You know the one! It's what millions of college kids across | |
237 america are using to sastisfy their longing for music :-D. Anyways, gaim supports | |
238 it. It's kind of fiunky, though. Napster is a TCP protocol and only requires one | |
239 connection to the server. All file transfers, however, are explicitly client to | |
240 client. The plugin currently only supports one way file transfer (downloading) | |
241 from people who are _not_ firewalled. You can also send private messages to each | |
242 other, join chat rooms, browse a user's files, and search. More implementation | |
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276 Great! Send it over to the Patches section on our sourceforge page, |
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277 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. From there we'll take a look at it (no |
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278 promises that it'll get in, but we'll at least take a look at it). |
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283 a plugin. Then other people will be able to see it and use it. (Make sure that |
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284 you understand that your plugin is necessarily GPL'd, and you must provide |
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287 5.3 Can you teach me how to program GTK? |
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291 http://www.gtk.org/. That's how I learned, anyway. |
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300 to talk to gaim users. So please, don't IM us for us to answer questions about |
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304 you can ask a question, just ask it. We'll usually respond. | |
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306 6.2 I want to write an IM client. Will you help me? |
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308 I'll give you advice, but other than that, no (unless you'd like to pay me). |
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310 6.3 I have money. I need software written. Can you help? |
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317 Most certainly. IM me or email me and I'll tell you where you can ship it to |
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320 6.5 I would like to send you beer. |
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333 6.8 Why the GPL? |
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337 6.9 What is a wagii? |
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339 Interesting question that you ask, there. 'Wagii' is the official celebratory |
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340 cry of gaim. Anytime you are feeling happy or excited, just remember all of |
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341 the hard work that we have done to provide you with this wonderful, free piece |
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342 of software -- as the pure, raw, emotion flows through you, maybe you too will |
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343 let out the cry of -- Wagii. |
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347 6.10 What window manager/distribution/other crap do you use? |
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355 his 20 Eterms and 4 Mozilla windows open. Oh yeah, and gaim_applet. |
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357 6.11 Is XX a good hard drive, YY a good monitor and ZZ a good CPU? |
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359 You could send us one and we could tell you... :) |
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361 6.12 I want to contribute to the effort. Where can I send beer to? |
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