# PEP avatars for MCabber

This is a module, implementing avatar publishing/retrieving via

pep/pubsub. This module informs you, when your buddies publish their

avatars via pep and provides command '/avatar' to publish your own.

But this is not all. It also will show you buddy's avatar!

Yes, it is aalib :)

For this module to actually do something you should set the option

'avatars_directory' - a place, where your buddy avatars will be saved.

To receive notifications you need only to load it (better at startup,

as I had some problems otherwise due to server's caching features).

Then when your buddy will change avatar, you will receive notification

and new avatar will be downloaded, saved and printed to buddy's window.

To publish avatar you need your server to support both pep and pubsub

(many public jabber servers offer only pubsub or neither, while for

example prosody in default debian's complectation supports only pep).

You can use AAOPTS environment variable to set aalib operation options,

like contrast, brightness, etc (you can change mcabber environment at

run-time with 'env' module). For a list of options see aalib

documentation: <http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/aalib_9.html>

# Installation

 * mcabber headers

 * mcabber-pep module headers

 * libpng

 * aalib

 * glib

 * loudmouth

 * cmake

 * make

 * c compiler (gcc)

 * linker (binutils)

Then do:

    $ mkdir build

    $ cd build

    $ cmake ..

    $ make edit_cache

    $ make

    # make install

Debian users can instead of make install do:

    $ make package

    # dpkg -i libmcabber-avatar_*.deb

Users of other distributions can select appropriate package generator,

using cache editor.

# License

This code underlies terms of GNU GPL v2 or later. You can find it in

file COPYING from this distribution or on a GNU web-site

<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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