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Fixes this crash: 1. Open an IM window with someone who has just gone online or offline 2. Delete your account from the Accounts window 3. Wait for the 11 second timer to trigger The conversation code was setting an 11 second timer when a buddy signs online or offline so that it could stop showing the open door or close door icon for the buddy, similar to what we do in the buddy list. However, we didn't keep track of the handle for this timer and didn't clear it if the account is deleted--thus the crash. I noticed that we don't currently show the open door or close door icons in the conversation window. I think it would be good if we did... but I don't think the gtkconv code should keep track of this information. gtkblist.c already keeps track of it in gtknode->recent_signonoff_timer. We should either re-use that, or better yet, we should add "recent signon" and "recent signoff" states to the status system somehow. But I don't feel like working on that... it's pretty minor. In any case I don't think this code is the right way to handle it, so I'm getting rid of it. Feel free to disapprove this if you disagree! (But also please fix the crash, maybe just by disabling the timer for now) I'm also getting rid of the login_list and logout_list lists, since they're not used. 1 file changed, 33 deletions(-)

Purple, Pidgin and Finch
========================
See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.

libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks.  It supports
AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN and Yahoo!, among others.

Pidgin is an graphical IM client written in C which uses the GTK+
toolkit.

Finch is a text-based IM client written in C which uses the ncurses
toolkit.

These programs are not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any
other company in any way.

BUILD
=====

Read the 'INSTALL' file for more detailed directions.

These programs use the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use
gmake, BSD make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help
to see what build options are available.

In order to compile Pidgin you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
well as the development files!). The configure script will fail if you
don't.  If you don't have GTK+ 2.0 installed, you should install it
using your distribution's package management tools.

For sound support, you also need gstreamer 0.10 or higher. For
spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell (http://gtkspell.sf.net/).
Your distro of choice probably already includes these, just be sure to
install the development packages.

RUN
===

You should run 'make install' as root to make sure plugins and other files
get installed into locations they want to be in. Once you've done that,
you only need to run 'pidgin' or 'finch'.

To get started, simply add a new account.

If you come across a bug, please report it at: http://pidgin.im

PLUGINS
=======

If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Purple, run the
./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
source code.  This will prevent the ability to load plugins.

'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/purple (PREFIX being what
you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Purple
looks for the plugins in that directory by default.  Plugins can be installed
per-user in ~/.purple/plugins as well.  Pidgin and Finch also look in
$PREFIX/lib/pidgin and $PREFIX/lib/finch for UI-specific, respectively.

To build a plugin from a .c file, put it in the plugins/ directory in
the source and run 'make filename.so', e.g. if you have the .c file
'kickass.c', put it in the plugins/ directory, and from that directory,
run 'make kickass.so'.