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[gaim-migrate @ 14522] SF Patch #1363787 from Bartosz Oler "This is a fix to the 'Find buddies' command in which, after the search results window was closed, prpl's internal state was not cleared. A minor modification in the notify API was required. This patch also adds a few more notifications for the user." There also appears to be a few unrelated GG prpl updates in here. I noticed that more strings are marked for translation now. I made several changes to this patch. I also found out that we're not honoring the callbacks passed in to the notify API. That's a bug since we document them. I'm not in the mood to fix it. I changed GCallback to GHookFunc as it has the right type (whereas GCallback did not). The name isn't too bad either. I didn't really want to create a new callback function typedef. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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.