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[gaim-migrate @ 14925] I've been meaning to spend the time to commit these changes separately, but it's been a couple days without me finding the time... 1. Allow the creation of GaimStatusTypes by passing NULL for the name and/or id. The core uses the default name and/or id. This eliminates quite a bit of duplication in the prpls. 2. Make statuses more consistent. For example, in some prpls, "Busy" was descended from the UNAVAILABLE primitive and on others it was a case of AWAY. Another example... "On Vacation" is definitely an EXTENDED_AWAY not an AWAY. 3. Rename some pixmaps to elminate some special cases. The names of the pixmaps should now match the primitive default IDs. 4. Rename the HIDDEN primitive to INVISIBLE, since we seem to be using that term everywhere. In conjunction with #1, more duplication was eliminated. 5. Add a MOBILE status primitive. It's not used now. It'll be needed in the (hopefully not-too-distant) future, so I'm planning ahead. 6. Shrink the status select for small blist folks. Now if someone can get rid of that stupid extra padding, we'll be set (well, after we deal with imhtml space issues). I've fought with this for many many hours over several days and I can't get it. It's clear that the combo box is requesting more space than is really necessary, but I don't know why. This is really my first go at anything significant status-related. Everyone should check their favorite prpls carefully to make sure I didn't break anything. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)