Cool! lotsa changes I see.
Jeff
Bill Essig wrote:
WIN32: version 2.0.0:
* Updated GTK+ to 2.6.10 (rev.a)
* The transparency plugin has been rewritten and enhanced.
* MSN open email bug fixed.
* Lots of other things that I can't remember right now.
OVERALL:
Status 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 List:
* 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
Conversations and Chats:
* 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)
Sounds:
* Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
* Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS directly
Log Viewer:
* 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:
* 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.
MSN Features:
* 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
Yahoo Features:
* 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
AIM/ICQ Features:
* 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)
IRC Features:
* 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)
Jabber Features:
* Support for SRV lookups
* Support for buddy icons
* Jabber User Directory searching
SILC Features:
* Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen)
* Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen)
* Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen)
Other Protocol Changes:
* 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
Other Noteworthy Changes:
* 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
Preference Changes:
* 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
Just a quote from the changelog. I just like it overall, with the new
status system and AIM file transfer over NAT works now!!! YAY!!!
-A. W. Wilson
a.k.a. W. E. Essig
On 12/20/05, *Jeff Newton* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Bill what have they added to this beta version?
Jeff
Bill Essig wrote:
> Yes. It is nice.
>
> On 12/19/05, *Jeff Newton* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys, has anyone tried out the new beta verion of GAIM 2.0??
> Supposedly its
> the beta 2.0 version, a friend of mine mentioned it to me via IM
> tonight on my
> current version of gaim.
>
> Thanks -
>
> Jeff
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