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"We are going to destroy the conversations immediately only if the 'close immediately' preference is selected. Otherwise, close the conversation after a reasonable timeout (I am going to consider 10 minutes as a 'reasonable timeout' here. For chats, close immediately if the chat is not in the buddylist, or if the chat is not marked 'Persistent'."

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.