pidgin startup data

[Bill Crawford]

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 01:37:17 Rick Stevens wrote:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> writes:
> >> I believe you'll find all that in ~/.purple
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Now I'm not sure they could have made that any harder to find.  Purple?
> > Purple????
>
> Yup.  Pidgin uses libpurple.  Where the hell the name comes from I have
> no idea, but there it is.  Perhaps because its icon in the menus is a
> purple bird?

Name is, I believe, a pronouncable form of "prpl", or "protocol plugin". I could 
be wrong ...