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[gaim-migrate @ 17929] User Info and Tooltips now use the GaimNotifyUserInfo object and methods defined in notify.h. GaimNotifyUserInfo objects encapsulate a list of GaimNotifyUserInfoEntry objects, each of which may have a label, a value, and be specified to be a section header. This moves the burden of UI generation of user information from the various prpls to the UI. The UI can choose how to display the information rather than being fenced into a particular HTML formatting. Consistency across the prpls' information presentation is now enforced, as well. gaim_notify_user_info_get_text_with_newline() generates text in the: <b>label</b>: value <b>label</b>: value format as was passed by convention from prpls in the past. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and 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 Gaim
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.

This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
with.

It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
tree, which is a much cleaner solution.