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[gaim-migrate @ 18151] Revert GtkIMHtml hacks that tried to fix gtkimhtml bugs, replace it with heuristic workaround. If you receive a message with more than 100 HTML tags strip all formatting before displaying it. Hopefully nobody has any legitimate uses for 100 HTML tags in a message. I guess we'll see in beta6... which I think we're good for now. I think that post-2.0.0 we'll wind up replacing GtkIMHtml with a legitimate HTML widget and do the Adium/Kopete "chat theme" thing. An HTML widget should be able to handle formatting more efficiently than GtkTextView. 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.