Added hexchat.py to the Visual Studio Python plugin project item list so it is tracked consistently in the Windows project metadata.
Added hexchat.py to the corresponding .vcxproj.filters entries under Source Files for IDE consistency.
Added an explicit copy step that places those menu icons into $(ZoiteChatRel)\share\icons\menu\..., which is already included by the installer’s share\icons\* rule, so they now get installed on Windows.
I also fixed Windows packaging to include what the SVG path needs at runtime: librsvg DLLs, gdk-pixbuf loader modules, and loaders.cache in the release bundle.
Added a corresponding copy step so those icons are emitted into the Windows release tree at $(ZoiteChatRel)\share\icons\..., ensuring parity with Linux icon availability in installed builds.
Removed Adwaita icon bundle copy rules from the Windows packaging project (copy.vcxproj), so share/icons/Adwaita is no longer pulled into Windows build artifacts.
Removed Adwaita icon inclusion from the Windows installer manifest (zoitechat.iss.tt), so installer builds no longer ship Adwaita icon files.
Added a Windows-packaged attribution file at win32/copy/share/adwaita-icons-attribution.txt; because win32/copy/copy.vcxproj already copies share\**\*, this file will be included in the Windows output under share\adwaita-icons-attribution.txt.
The attribution text explicitly uses “GNOME Project” and includes the requested link http://www.gnome.org.
Updated the Inno Setup installer file list to install share\glib-2.0\schemas\* into {app}\share\glib-2.0\schemas under the libs component, so installed builds also ship required schema data.
Updated gtkutil_file_req_response() so only GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT runs the file-selection path; all non-accept responses now immediately destroy the dialog via the callback’s dialog pointer, avoiding chooser access on cancel paths.
Kept native chooser handling aligned with that behavior: chooser reads are still gated behind GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT, while cleanup remains a single unref path deferred to idle to avoid teardown-in-signal-stack issues on Windows.
Added a new AppStream release block for 2.18.0-pre1 and restored the prior 2.17.4 release record, so release history remains additive.
Fixed Debian changelog handling by prepending a new pre-release entry 2.18.0~pre1-1 and restoring the historical 2.17.0-1 / 2.17.0-0 entries unchanged.
Moved all wildcard-based includes (*.dll, **\*, etc.) into an ItemGroup inside the Build target so they’re evaluated at build time instead of as VC project item definitions, preserving the copy behavior
Added a PowerShellPath resolution chain in zoitechat.props so builds can use:
POWERSHELL_EXE override,
%WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe when present,
fallback powershell.exe from PATH.
