Pidgin 2.7.8

(2010.12.19)

Chnages in 2.7.8

General:
* Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak)

Pidgin:
* When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly when it contains HTML-escapable characters (e.g. "<3" was previously displayed as "<3"). * Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead. * New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with icon from Jakub Szypulka. * Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which to put the icon. libpurple:
* Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam)

AIM and ICQ:
* Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown without a message in your buddy list.

Gadu-Gadu:
* Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external libgadu to 1.9.0.

MSN:
* Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be disconnected.
* Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English characters.
* Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated services.
* Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out.
* Add option to disable connections from multiple locations.
* Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list.
* Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going invisible.
* Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list.
* Remove struct packing for better portability.

XMPP:
* Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types.

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