annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 31444:a9e077fb65e9

Add a cleared-message-history conversation signal, and use it in Pidgin and Finch This stems out of an email discussion with Andrew Victor back in July 2010 regarding letting protocol plugins clear the message scrollback area for UIs. At the time, nobody objected to having the libpurple-clearing function call the UI clearing function. This should also be happily backward-compatible.

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.