Changes
This is the summary of changes between KMess 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-alpha2.
- added support to start chats while you're invisible.
- added automatic reconnection after unwanted disconnections.
- added IRC like command handling in the chat window (/away, etc..)
- added 'Send with KMess' menu item to Konqueror context menu's.
- added verbose status message when KMess fallbacks to the HTTP connection.
- added contact emoticon blacklist, to block annoying custom emoticons from contacts.
- added Likeback support to collect user feedback, ported from Basket of KDE 3.
- added support to configure the toolbars and menus in the chat window.
- added contact list export dialog.
- added context menu to the contact list, to open the contact menu with the left mouse too.
- added confirmation dialogs when the menu gets hidden with Ctrl+M.
- added confirmation dialogs when deleting custom emoticons.
- added confirmation dialogs when deleting old display pictures.
- added filtering options to the file transfer window, to show downloads/uploads only.
- added Greek translation by Panagiotis Papadopoulos.
- added Serbian translation by Zoran Milovanović.
- added Slovak translation by Rastislav Krupanský.
- improved protocol support, upgraded the server core protocol to MSNP15.
- improved user interface of the main login dialog, added links.
- improved overall user interface with further fine tuning.
- improved KDE session restoring; KMess will reconnect if you were connected at logout.
- improved chat notifications to be compatible with the new Plasma notifications of KDE 4.2.
- improved emoticon panels; users can choose between message editors or permanent sidebar panels.
- improved painting controls for the Ink handwriting.
- improved chat logging support (support XML, TXT output) in preparation of a chat logging browser.
- improved chat autoscroll feature.
- improved chat window status bar.
- improved several English messages in the user interface.
- improved reporting of error messages, using notifications for warnings.
- improved cmake detection of libqca2-plugin-ossl package for Ubuntu.
- changed contact sidebar, clicking the contact always shows the context menu.
- fixed multiple bugs with automatic reconnecting.
- fixed blocked login view when there is no network connection.
- fixed saving passwords when the 'save password' account option is off.
- fixed saving passwords when KWallet is not supported, or the user refused to use it.
- fixed contact list group expanding/collapsing with incremental search.
- fixed contact list sorting and grouping.
- fixed context menu to chat with a blocked/offline/allowed contact.
- fixed double error box when adding a non-existing contact to the list.
- fixed chat window focus issues.
- fixed chat tabs for contacts with HTML characters in their name.
- fixed chat tabs for contacts with long names.
- fixed chat tabs being displayed when tabbed chatting is disabled.
- fixed chat messages displayed in the wrong tab.
- fixed chat message wordwrapping for long unbreakable words.
- fixed chat spell checker setting, the setting was not remembered correctly.
- fixed typing messages for tabbed chats.
- fixed adding custom emoticons from the chat window sidebar.
- fixed and improved shortcut keys to switch between chat tabs, start a chat, etc...
- fixed layouting issue in the Classic Compact chat style.
- fixed displaying a 'contact left chat' message twice if there was no conversation in between.
- fixed unclickable display picture in the chat if the contact is offline.
- fixed invalid dates being displayed for contact properties.
- fixed updating the chat windows after an emoticon theme is changed.
- fixed updating the chat style preview when "Group follow up messages" is toggled.
- fixed start folder of the file browser for account pictures.
- fixed displaying the filename for files transferred with the old MSNFTP protocol.
- fixed cancel link not being removed when a file transfer invitation hit the timeout
- fixed notification default settings.
- fixed missing nudge event in the notification settings.
- fixed missing detection of "Windows Media Center" in the list of known MSN clients.
- fixed now listening icon, using a common icon now.
- fixed now listening support, added support for all MPris-compatible players.
- fixed inconsistent order of the artist and track title in now Listening information.
- fixed position of the red circle in the system tray screenshot.
- fixed protocol support of group chats.
- fixed protocol support of the MSN-HTTP fallback.
- fixed protocol support of MSNP2P by Windows Live Messenger 2009, should fix picture/emoticon transfers.
- fixed protocol support of MSN Plus! markup, displaying contact names incorrectly at various places.
- fixed protocol support for resetting your Personal Message, was not recognized by Windows Live Messenger 2009.
- fixed displaying of Offline-IM messages, wrong sender was displayed when receiving many messages.
- fixed error handling for SOAP protocol errors.
- fixed "view profile" pages with updated MSN website.
- fixed crashes in the contact list model code.
- fixed a crash when receiving MSN Plus! predefined messages.
- fixed a crash with receiving files with the old MSNFTP protocol.
- fixed an assertion crashing KMess caused by read-only configuration files with a KDE 4 debug build.
- fixed compiling issues with KDE 4.0, 'KDE on Windows' and MinGW32.
- fixed compiler warnings.
- fixed adblock icons showing up by the embedded KHTMLPart component in the chat window.
- fixed network code to use QNetworkAccessManager, this should give us proper Proxy support.
- fixed browser invocation code, using KToolInvocation to have instant invocation.
- fixed issues with network detection if Solid/NetworkManager is not available.
- fixed removed translator name entries in the .po files; some languages appear to have translated names.
- removed custom notification settings in favour of KNotify settings in the global settings panel.
- updated English handbook by Heimen Stoffels.
- updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Leonel Freire.
- updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Sergio Rafael Lemke.
- updated Dutch translation by Elve and Sander Pientka.
- updated French translation by Barthe Guillaume.
- updated German translation by Panagiotis Papadopoulos.
- updated Greek translation by Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Glentadakis.
- updated Hungarian translation by Pauli Henrik.
- updated Italian translation.
- updated Norsk Bokmal translation by Øyvind Sæther.
- updated Simplified Chinese translation by Cheng Yang.
- updated Spanish translation by Alexis Daniel Medina Medina, Juan Pablo González Tognarelli.
- updated Swedish translation by Mattias Newzella.
- updated Traditional Chinese translation by Yen-chou Chen, the Tryneeds-Chinese Translation Platform.
