Since GTK 2.4 came out, Hebrew (bidi, that is) support has much improved in gaim. Since it determines the direction of the paragraph based on its first letter, it has become useful to have the text of each message be on a separate line than the nickname. I have created a patch that adds an option to do this in the Message Text preferences menu. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 29286 [details, diff] Newline patch for gaim 0.76
Created attachment 29287 [details] Ebuild using aforementioned patch Based on gaim-0.76-r2.ebuild
Can I ask where you got this patch? I like to know where these things come from because I discuss them upstream as well.
I wrote it myself, actually :) If this is about credit, a guy called Ilan Tanny helped me find where to put the settings. But no, I didn't grab it off a newsletter or anything... I've also submitted patches to the gaim sourceforge project (as a feature request), but it'll take them years to look at it.
I don't believe it is a good idea to add patches that aren't upstream CVS. The problem is that then the distro ends up supporting the patch and will keep re-patching for every release. I'm leaning towards ending support for the CJK patch for this very reason. If/when your patch is accepted upstream, feel free to re-open this bug and paste the URL to the patch tracker entry.
