Plugins (Brian Morrison/Michellev)

[Harold Ayers]

   1. Re: Plugins (Brian Morrison)
   

-On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:58:44 +0200
"Michelle" <michellev at freightfusion.net> wrote:

> Hey my name is Michelle and I would like to load the List Handler
> plug in for my pidgin.
> 
> But the thing is I do not know how to do this can you please reply to
> my email with some instructions which will help me to do this
> 

>You need to download the Pidgin Plugin Pack, this can be found here:

>http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/downloads

>Once downloaded, you need to open the zip file and if you're using
>Windows (which I think you are likely to be) you then copy all the files
>in the zip archive to the Pidgin plugin directory, which is usally
>C:\Program Files\pidgin\plugins.

>Then restart Pidgin, and using the menu select Tools->Plugins, find the
>plugins you want, select them, configure them as you want, close the
>plugins window and you're away.

-- 

>Brian Morrison

Brian, the problem with using the installed directory is that when an updated Pidgin is installed, it overlays the installation directory wiping out any Plugins.

I found the following in one of the "Readme.Txt" files when using Plugins

To install these plugins, copy them to the plugins directory created by the
Pidgin installer (usually C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins) or to your own
plugins directory (usually needs to be created as a subdirectory of
%APPDATA%\.purple).  If you are unsure of %APPDATA%'s location, go to a
Windows Explorer window's address bar or to the Run prompt and type
%APPDATA%\.purple to access your .purple directory.

Installing to your own plugins directory is preferred, as Pidgin upgrades
will not touch %APPDATA%\.purple but they will erase the system wide plugins
directory.  Any plugins you install to the system wide plugins directory will
have to be reinstalled every time you upgrade Pidgin.

For more information, visit http://plugins.guifications.org/ and
http://www.pidgin.im.
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