Gaim 2.0.0 beta 1
Posted on Sunday, December 18 2005 @ 16:04 CET by LSDsmurfStatus System:
- The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages, away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten. Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury.
- Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the selector at the bottom of the window.
- To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
- Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
- Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that contains multiple online buddies
- Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips (Richard Laager)
- Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
- If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it will remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden)
- Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
- Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically use the same conversation window.
- The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list
- Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi)
- Full message background colors are now supported
- Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message
- Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently from GNOME color palette
- Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory usage in active conversations
- Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs (James Vega)
- Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart)
- Warning dialog when closing a window with unread IM messages
- In chats right-click on names in the conversation window to IM/Send File/Get info/ignore the user
- Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
- Brand new message queueing system (Casey Harkins)
- Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
- Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS directly
- Log viewer aggregates logs from the same Contact (Richard Laager)
- When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default (Peter McCurdy)
- Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools menu of the Buddy List
- Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting Gaim (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
- Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
- Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more intuitively (Benjamin Kahn with help from Richard Laager)
- Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted alphabetically (Richard Laager)
- The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts
- Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
- Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer of Code)
- New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code)
- gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within Gaim (Piotr Zielinski, Google Summer of Code)
- The functionality of the auto-reconnect plugin has been moved into the Gaim core, and the plugin itself has been removed.
- Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
- Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
- Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
- Stealth Settings have been implemented
- Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code)
- Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for authorization
- ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark, Google Summer of Code)
- Many overall improvements to OSCAR file transfers (Jonathan Clark, Google Summer of Code)
- Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware" setting (Ettore Simone)
- ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
- SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah)
- Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC channel or change your nick (Richard Laager)
- Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv commands (Joao LuÃs Marques Pinto)
- Support for SRV lookups
- Support for buddy icons
- Jabber User Directory searching
- Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen)
- Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen)
- Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen)
- Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google Summer of Code)
- Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of Code)
- SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
- Sametime protocol support
- UPnP and NAT traversal support (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of Code)
- The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
- New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse)
- People using input methods can now use Enter again
- GNOME users can open received files by clicking on "Open" in the file transfer window
- Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable
- Buddy Pounces now have a proper management window. (Kevin Stange)
- Buddy icons maintain aspect ratio when resized
- The last used directory is remembered for opening or saving files and buddy icons
- Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up
- Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted smiley theme (Levi Bard)
- All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of the buddy list window.
- Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may still be overridden on a per-account basis.
- Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled
- Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme
- Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley; behavior removed from Gaim
- Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default, but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme
- Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves to compensate for background color.
- Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior
- Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set"
- Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy list; behavior is now always enabled
- Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging buddies around the buddy list
- Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences
- Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to the notify plugin
- Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled
- Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations' "Options" menu now affects the global preference
- Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden by the timestamp plugin
- Removed all protocol options pages
- Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W
- Removed "Gaim usage" and "Idle time reporting" preferences; behavior now always uses mouse/keyboard when available
- Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these will be logged when the system log is enabled
- Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been consolidated into a single preference
Program Information Category: Internet and communication Type: Free Version: 2.0.0 beta 1 Size: / Works on: Multiple Product page: here |
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