Changes
This is the summary of changes between KMess 1.5pre1 and 1.4.3.
- added direct connection support, faster file transfers.
- added chat message styles. Styles can use all CSS2 features supported by KHTML.
- added emoticon themes to the chat window. They can be switched on-the-fly.
- added offline-im support (receiving only).
- added custom emoticon support (receiving only).
- added winks support (receiving only).
- added nudge support.
- added personal status message support.
- added grouping of chat messages from the same contact.
- added alt tags to all emoticons, for easy copy-pasting.
- added a link to "register.passport.net" for creating a new account.
- added support for file transfers between hosts of the same LAN.
- added support for parallel transfers over the same direct connection.
- added support for relaying invitations to another swichboard connection.
- added option to upgrade a temporary/guest account permanently (when "Remember this profile" was left unchecked).
- added detection of unverified passport e-mail adresses.
- added translation for Finnish.
- added Doxygen configuration to generate API docs.
- upgraded client-server protocol to MSNP12 (MSN Messenger 7.5).
- upgraded client-to-client protocol to MSNC5 (MSN Messenger 7.5).
- improved login dialog, replacing the confusing profile box.
- improved main window interface, added contact picture to main window.
- improved chat window interface, added sidebar for contacts and emoticons.
- improved settings dialog, added widgets of the "display pic" tab to the "accounts" tab.
- improved detection of login errors for problems with the MSN servers.
- improved chat message link detection with support for e-mail addresses and sftp:// links and "geek-style" urls (urls without a http:// or www prefix, like "slashdot.org").
- improved performance for accounts with large contact lists.
- improved "connection timeout" message, with suggestions to "check the Internet connection and MSN service status".
- improved support for temporary/guest accounts (e.g. for internet cafe usage or friends visiting).
- improved right-to-left language support, chat messages are reversed in the same way 'kmess --reverse' changes the GUI.
- changed chat window title, displaying the contact name before the "KMess" part.
- changed emoticon size, emoticons are displayed at their real size instead of being scaled.
- fixed annoying error messages with picture transfers, only displayed in the console now.
- fixed repeatedly displaying "this contact is offline" warnings while typing a message.
- fixed unwanted saving of the contact list for "guest accounts", this was overlooked by a bugfix of 1.4.
- fixed minor issues that occurred when the chat connection is established but the invited contacts have not entered the chat yet.
- fixed handling of unexpected disconnections by the server, contactlist was not saved and reset, invitations were not aborted.
- fixed unwanted "Connection timed out" message when it took more then one minute to authenticate and download the contact list.
- fixed handling of connection errors, no error message was displayed except for connection timeouts.
- fixed closing the connection when 3 pings are missed.
- fixed detection of cancelled file transfers.
- fixed cancelling of file transfer invitations before the contact accepted.
- fixed cancelling of file transfer sessions by the one who didn't start the transfer.
- fixed display problems with dark color schemes.
- fixed parsing of chat messages containing both emoticons and hyperlinks.
- fixed login from main window, no longer creates a new account by default.
- fixed hanging user interface during file transfers invitations.
- fixed small memory leak, chat invitation was not removed.
- fixed title of the "save" menu item in the chat window.
- fixed error message for third-party "text/x-keepalive" message.
- fixed "&Verdana" font setting in chat messages. This was addressed in KMess 1.4, but it could still appear if you never changed font settings.
- fixed font size of font selection buttons, as the font size is not used by the msn protocol.
- fixed race condition that could make KMess crash when a chat window was closed while a contact was leaving or typing.
- fixed overwriting chat logs when the conversation is restarted within the same minute.
- fixed saving settings of the main window menu when disconnecting/switching accounts.
- fixed e-mail notification settings, gray out options if user is not logged in with a Hotmail account.
- fixed file chooser path for display pictures, in SUSE it opened /etc/opt/kde instead of /opt/kde3
- fixed translation of Danish, renamed from "dk.po" to "da.po".
- fixed right-to-left support for translated notification/event/error messages in the chat window.
- updated Turkish translation, by Uğur Çetin.
- removed support for Qt 3.1 due the use of the QToolbox widget in the chat windows.
