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Pidgin/Finch/purplified the ChangeLog and corrected some errors.

author	Kevin Stange <kevin@simguy.net>
date	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:37:17 +0000
parents	1f6ea380fb09
children	5d5d9e354696

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 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
 version 2.0.0:
+	* The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the
+	  GTK+ UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC)
 	Build Changes:
-	* With the Core/UI split completed, it is now possible to build Gaim
+	* With the Core/UI split completed, it is now possible to build Pidgin
-	  without any UIs, creating a libgaim library upon which other UIs
+	  without any UIs, creating a libpurple library upon which other UIs
 	  may be constructed
-	* A new ncurses-based console UI called gaim-text is now available
+	* A new ncurses-based console UI called Finch is now available
 	  (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code)
 	* Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI
-	  changes and libgaim targets
+	  changes and libpurple targets
 	* libxml2 is now required.  We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for
 	  more correct XML parsing.
 	Status System:
 	* The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
 	* 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
 	* Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
-	* If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
+	* If Pidgin is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
-	  will remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden)
+	  will remain hidden when Pidgin is started again (Scott Shedden)
 	* Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
 	* Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via
 	  the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the
 	  account editor)
 	* The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and
 	  the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed
-	* Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs any more. They are
+	* Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are
 	  displayed at the bottom of the buddy list instead.
-	* New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs any more. The are
+	* New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs anymore. The are
-	  displayed at the top of the buddylist instead.
+	  displayed at the top of the buddy list instead.
 	Conversations and Chats:
 	* Timestamps honor the locale.  To use the traditional style,
 	  enable the "Message Timestamp Formats" plugin.  The plugin
 	  also provides options to show dates in timestamps.
 	* 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
+	* Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul
-	  Chowdhury)
+	  Habib Chowdhury)
 	* Brand new message queueing system.  Sounds are played when a
 	  message is queued rather than when the message is dequeued
 	  (Casey Harkins)
 	* Ability to find the last message from a user in a chat (Levi Bard
 	  and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
 	* Formatting is preserved across messages
-	  (There are known issues with pasting formatted text.  Either use "Paste
+	  (There are known issues with pasting formatted text.  Either use
-	   as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear Formatting
+	  "Paste as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear
-	   button on the toolbar.)
+	  Formatting button on the toolbar.)
 	* Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly
 	  improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
 	* Bi-Directional text support improvements for GtkIMHtml (Shlomi Loubaton)
 	Sounds:
 	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)
+	  Pidgin (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)
 	* Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted
 	  alphabetically
 	* The text replacement plugin allows non-whole-word replacement rules
 	  (Levi Bard)
 	* The text replacement plugin offers both case sensitive matching and
 	  automatic case handling
-	* I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has easier an method to unidle accounts, a way
+	* I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has easier an method to unidle accounts, a
-	  to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts idled by
+	  way to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts
-	  the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
+	  idled via the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
 	* 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
+	* gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within libpurple
 	  (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
+	  moved into the core, and the plugin itself has been removed.
-	  removed.
 	* 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification
 	  plugin.
-	* The system tray icon is now transparent (Dan Winship)
+	* The system tray icon is now properly transparent (Dan Winship)
 	* New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium,
 	  MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer
 	* New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the
 	  times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond
 	  to you, based on times in the past when they have responded
 	  (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code)
-	* A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line, Offline
+	* A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line,
-	  Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline
+	  Offline Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline
 	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)
 	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).  This requires the libgadu library.  See
-	  http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq2.php#libgadu for more information.
+	  http://pidgin.im/faq.php#libgadu for more information.
 	* SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
 	* Sametime protocol support
 	  Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net
 	* QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code, and the
 	  developers of the OpenQ project)
 	* Removed the Napster and TOC protocols plugins
 	Other Noteworthy Changes:
-	* The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the Gtk+
-	  UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC)
 	* 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)
 	* 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
-	* Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, gaim.svg (John Oyler)
+	* Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, pidgin.svg (John Oyler)
-	* If a given protocol don't support privacy, we now handle blocking in
+	* If a given protocol doesn't support privacy, we now handle blocking
-	  the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort)
+	  in the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort)
 	* Smiley themes can now include spaces in the smiley definitions.
 	  The spaces (and now backslashes) must be backslash-escaped.
 	  (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
 	* New e-mail notices are now grouped into one dialog.
 	  (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Chris Stafford)
 	  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
+	  behavior removed from Pidgin
 	* 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.

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