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Added a new GaimEventLoopUiOps item, input_get_error(). This function allows the UI to return the current error status on a socket/input. If the UI does not implement it (as Pidgin and gntgaim do not, since glib's handling of sockets is sane), it is just a wrapper around getsockopt(). Implemented or not, its return values should match those of getsockopt() with a level of SOL_SOCKET and an option of SO_ERROR. For curious souls, Adium will be using this to provide a working version of getsockopt(); the CoreFoundation CFSocket class which is used for socket read/write calls getsockopt() with SO_ERROR itself, thereby clearing the error flag [as documented in getsockopt()'s behavior], so depending upon it for determining if an error occurred leads to significant misbehavior.

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.