Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it worth it! We're
beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and this release features a largely
re-designed conversation window. We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much
thanks go to all the developers, translators, and testers who made this
possible.
Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
libpurple:
Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin
and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib
to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency. (Arjan van
de Ven with Intel Corporation)
No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
notifications in chats
With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved
images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second
time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
Undo capability in the conversation window
The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide
additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status
message.
Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
Some bugs regarding search results fixed
A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
Program Information Category:
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Free Version: 2.1.0 Size: 11MB Works on: Windows
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