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Fix up the X-Status code in many ways: * Clean up the descriptions to be consistently of the form, "I am _____." * Properly mark the descriptions for translation. * Utilize the files from small smiley theme as much as possible. Through a Makefile rule, they will be copied from emotes/small/16/ to emblems/16 at build time and then installed as usual. This is slightly hackish, but ensures that our icons are consistent and saves manual copying work and duplication of source files in the repository. + As part of this, mobile.png was moved to emotes/small/16, as it is needed in both places. * Call these things "Custom Status Icon"s (adding "Status") in the UI. * Add icqmood0 = shopping, based on testing with ICQ6. Thanks John!!! * Change the xstatus_crap icon to xstatus_typing to match ICQ 6. The other typing icon was left alone, except that the name was set to NULL so we wouldn't get duplicates in the list. * Change the xstatus_iron (Pro7 TV icon) to xstatus_suit, using the 'person wearing a suit' icon from N3fr0n to match ICQ6. I named this icon, somewhat arbitrarily, "At the office". * The PDA icon is now the same as the hiptop, but hopefully that won't cause any confusion. Also, the custom icon is now higher priority than the hiptop icon. * The music icon is the ("tune") emblem, not the emoticon. This seems more consistent, given that we're talking about buddy list emblems. * The "Googling" icon has been renamed to "Searching the web" to avoid the trademark. * The "zzz" icon is now an icon for smoking, which seems to fit with the official client's icon as posted in #4508. Other clients may show a marijuana leaf. Oh well.

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Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple are a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular
release schedule.  Due to the rate of development, the code in our Monotone
repository undergoes frequent bursts of massive changes, often leaving behind
brokenness and partial functionality while the responsible developers rewrite
some portion of code or seek to add new features.

What this all boils down to is that the code in our Monotone repository _WILL_
sometimes be broken.  Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested
in personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
assistance from the developers!) use only released versions.  Since releases
will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using the newest,
shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having to deal with ugly
development bugs that we already know about but haven't gotten around to fixing.

If you are interested in hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple, please
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By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  If you have
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documentation.  Otherwise (or even if you do!), the header files for each
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conversation.h contains documentation for the entire purple_conversation_*
API, and account.h contains documentation for the purple_account_* API.

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