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This change is probably going to be unpopular, but I ask that people give it a chance before blindly reverting it. This shortens and changes a bunch of the text from the About box. I think it's better this way, as the text we had before was insanely long when this shorter text gets the same message across. This also reorganizes some of the help resources we listed (IRC channel, FAQ, etc). This should finish addressing the complaints that prompted me to start looking at this dialog and chopping stuff out of it.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.