[Gaim-devel] [PATCH] Oscar file receive support

[William T. M. <wt...@du...>]

Hi,

I was annoyed by not being able to receive files from friends on AIM
without switching to the crippled TOC protocol.  As a result I made
some changes (patch attached) to add support for receiving files to
the Oscar protocol handler.  At present I only handle the case in
which one's buddy initiates the connection (probably using a Windows
client).

The patch is still unrefined, but I am able to use it to reliably
receive files of various sizes, and I would like to make it available
for comments and further testing.  If people find my changes useful, I
am interested in polishing them some more, and then perhaps adding
support for file sending and initiating connections.

Other notes:
* This patch is against current CVS (for GTK 2), but I originally
developed it for the 0.59.x tree; I can provide a diff for the stable
series if people are interested.
* Significant implementation of file-transfer support was already in
place, albeit disabled.  Much of my work involved re-enabling old code
and updating it to a compilable state.
* I didn't introduce any GTK into the protocol handler. :-)
* I am particularly interested in comments regarding my save-as
dialog (i.e. the bottom of dialogs.c).  This is the only place that
the patch touches generic code, and suggestions would be welcome
because I don't have a lot of experience with GTK.

-- Wil