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[gaim-migrate @ 5509] (21:17:26) KingAnt: The thing Luke committed a few hours ago. I think it makes it so Buddies->Get User Info gets the info of whoever is highlighted in the buddy list instead of always opening the "enter screenname" box (21:18:25) LSchiere: KingAnt: correct, as the commit message states, that's exactly what it does (21:18:29) Robot101: KingAnt: the menus don't act on buddies in the list (21:18:34) Robot101: the buttons do, but the menus don't (21:18:40) Robot101: so now it's inconsistent. (21:18:47) KingAnt: That's what I was thinking (21:18:51) Robot101: revert. (21:18:53) LSchiere: kay (21:19:09) KingAnt: Well, I was thinking more... if I want to get info of someone who's not on my buddy list, I shouldn't have to unclick on people in the buddy list (21:19:25) Robot101: that too! (21:19:37) LSchiere: i always forget the menu, so that didn't occur to me: i'm used to unclicking committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Gaim Smiley Themes Documentation
Sean M. Egan
5 Jan 2003

Version 0.60 of Gaim brings up all themable smileys.  In the preferences dialog, a user can choose from a selection of looks his smileys will take.  This guide is to serve as a reference to those interested in creating third-party smiley themes.  

(SME: I'm doing this at 6:30AM; I'm tired, but I can't sleep.  Someone make sure I fix this up to make sure it all makes sense when I'm not tired anymore.  Right now it's mostly just unassembled thoughts)

Your theme should be contained in a single directory.  This directory will be installed in the Gaim smiley theme directory (SME: There should probably be a $HOME/.gaim/smileys/ that the theme could go in too.).  This directory will contain a file called `theme' that specifies the theme and image (SME: And possibly sound) files that are used by the theme.  The format of the `theme' file is as follows.

The beginning of the file contains some metainformation about the theme in the format

Key=Value

Valid keys include:
Name - Name of the theme
Description - Description of the theme
Icon - An image used to represent the theme in the theme selector UI
Author - The author's name

Following this meta-information are "sml" groups.  A "sml" group is a group of smileys that will be shown together.  For example, each protocol has its own "sml" group (MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, etc.).  The name of the group is surrounded in square brackets, and each line beneath it (until the next sml group or the end of the file) defines a smiley.
Each line of the group starts with a filename of the icon (SME: Or sound?) followed by a space-delimited list of the characters that represent it. 

Example:
[AIM/ICQ]
smiley.png  :) :-)

In the smiley selector UI, each icon will only be shown once, and the first string representing it will be used.  To keep a smiley out of the selector altogether, make the first two characters of the line "! " followed by the filename and emoticons.