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[gaim-migrate @ 17782] Patch #1508458: "Improvements for per-account statusboxes" "If someone changes the status of an account using a per-account status-selector, and the current savedstatus is a transient savedstatus, then the changed status for the account is added as a substatus for the savedstatus. This is useful because a user can create a custom status using the per-account statusboxes in the buddy-list, and then using the 'New...' item from the global selectors, which will automatically populate the different statuses of all the accounts." committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date: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.