comparison plugins/CRAZY @ 94:9f6ce50ffb78

[gaim-migrate @ 104] Woohoo, the landing of the plugins. Nearly everything necessary is here. The only thing missing is that you can't load a plugin without signing on first (at least, not without some trickery). committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

93:5ca21b68eb29

Figures out the other person's IP address if they also have the same
plugin loaded.

	This would be a really interesting and pretty useful plugin. It
	could work possibly by sending  'hidden' text in the form of an
	HTML tag or something, and if it receives the same hidden text,
	it could then pass messages back  and forth to send and receive

really nice thing about having plugins  is as long as your code doesn't
segfault, you can keep testing and  debugging without having to restart
gaim. Plus the plugins tend to be small, and quick and easy to compile,
so development should be quick. Try to have FUN with these plugins :-).
(BTW, dibs on the 'control by file' plugin. :-) .)

94:9f6ce50ffb78

Figure out a user's IP address if they have the same plugin loaded

	This would be a really interesting and pretty useful plugin. It
	could work possibly by sending  'hidden' text in the form of an
	HTML tag or something, and if it receives the same hidden text,
	it could then pass messages back  and forth to send and receive

really nice thing about having plugins  is as long as your code doesn't
segfault, you can keep testing and  debugging without having to restart
gaim. Plus the plugins tend to be small, and quick and easy to compile,
so development should be quick. Try to have FUN with these plugins :-).
(BTW, dibs on the 'control by file' plugin. :-) .)

Other useful ideas I came up with later:

-Auto-reconnect on kick
-Stock/News ticker (I don't want it, but some people do)
-Play games through the same gaim plugin

	This one I think is one of my crazier ideas that I would only come up
	with this early in the morning. This plugin would somehow determine if
	the other person is using the same plugin. If s/he is, it would allow
	the people to play a game against each other, like checkers. It could
	be done by watching the messages passed and intercepting ones that
	relate to the game/plugin. Conversation could even continue as usual.
	What gets really warped is then you could write plugins for that
	plugin for various games (checkers, chess, hearts (4 people!)). I have
	no desire of trying this one, help yourself.

There's going to be a few plugins that are going to ship with gaim by default
eventually, probably. This would be a good thing to put in the PATCHES thing
over at sourceforge.net