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[gaim-migrate @ 17831] - change "global proxy settings" to "GNOME proxy settings," when running GNOME - Make the docklet "click" event happen on mouse-up, rather than mouse-down (otherwise in "pending" mode, the mouse-up event will be sent to some other app, and it will think it's clicked. - Make Jabber not create a new dialog in response to closing a dialog. This is part of a larger change I'm working on to remove all authentication dialogs, and it just happened to be in this tree when I svn ci'ed, and I don't feel like reverting it ;) committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and 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 Gaim
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.

This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
with.

It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
tree, which is a much cleaner solution.