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[gaim-migrate @ 15144] SF Patch #1390008 from Sadrul "GaimGtkConv: Update tab icons, and some other small changes" This seems to make the Send To menu update better. I haven't seen this patch make anything worse yet, so I'm committing it. If you start seeing weird update errors, let Sadrul or me know. I thought I had a case of the Send To menu not updating even with this patch, but I haven't yet been able to duplicate it. Sadrul's description: '1. Fixes the tab-icons/send-to menu updates by listening for the appropriate signals. This patch removes the "updated" field from conversation-uiops. There is an existing "-updated" signal which can replace the uiops. 2. If having conversations with more than one accounts of a contact, and the buddy-icon of an inactive account is changed, then the new icon is showed (I think), even though it is not the buddy icon for the currently active conversation. This patch fixes that. 3. Emit "buddy-typing" and "-stopped" signal whenever the typing-state is changed. Currently, the typing-state of a conversation is sometimes changed without emitting the signal. This patch fixes that.' I rejected #4. '5. Emits the "chat-left" signal *after* setting "chat->left" to TRUE. 6. Show a buddy for an account only once in the SendTo menu (currently Gaim shows the same buddy more than once if the buddy exists in more than one groups). This is done by keeping a list of GaimPresence -- since that's the only thing the blist-nodes for the same buddy share.' committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)