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[gaim-migrate @ 14026] Switch from using our old GaimGtkDisclosure widget to using the official GtkExpander widget. It works better and should make us look more uniform with other gtk apps. To maintain compatability with gtk < 2.4, I grabbed the gtkexpander.c and gtkexpander.h files from gtk+ CVS. I haven't tested compiling on a computer with gtk < 2.4 yet, so it's possible we'll need to get more stuff from gtk+ CVS. For future reference, gtkexpander.h was not modified, and gtkexpander.c was only modified to check if version is > 2.4 then do nothing. I also changed the #includes to use <> instead of "" 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.