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[gaim-migrate @ 16940] up the protocol version, handle the new buddy list message (which i renamed the service for again), pretend auth type 2 is auth type 1, note when a buddy is an msn buddy, and possibly even send msn buddy messages correctly. I haven't really tested if everything works with the new protocol version, but I can always lower it again if bad things start happening and I don't have time to fix them before the release. I don't know if sending messages to msn users really works or not, it seems to be down server side at the moment. Someone test when msn gets it working again :P There's no way to add msn contacts to your yahoo account from within gaim. Not sure how we'll do the UI for that. 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.