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[gaim-migrate @ 14220] sf patch #1343657, from Kevin Stange Kevin organized the ChangeLog! Yay! We should keep it organized committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net>
date Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:40:09 +0000
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1 Gaim: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client that's good for the soul! 1 Gaim: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client that's good for the soul!
2 2
3 version 2.0.0: 3 version 2.0.0:
4 New Features: 4 Status System:
5 * Insane rewrite of all code dealing with buddy and account status, away 5 * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
6 messages, away states, online/offline, etc. Huge thanks to Christian 6 away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten.
7 Hammond, Dave West, and Daniel Atallah 7 Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, and Daniel Atallah.
8 * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the
9 selector at the bottom of the window.
10 * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or
11 becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
12
13 Buddy List:
14 * Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
15 * Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that
16 contains multiple online buddies
17 * Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips (Richard Laager)
18 * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around
19 * If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
20 will remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden)
21 * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
22
23 Conversations and Chats:
24 * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically
25 use the same conversation window.
26 * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate
27 "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list
28 * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi)
29 * Full message background colors are now supported
30 * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message
31 * Smiley selection dialog rewritten to look nicer (Nathan Fredrickson)
32 * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently from GNOME
33 color palette
34 * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory
35 usage in active conversations
36 * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs
37 (James Vega)
38 * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open
39 with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart)
40
41 Sounds:
8 * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte) 42 * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
9 * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently from GNOME color 43 * Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS directly
10 palette 44
11 * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse) 45 Log Viewer:
12 * Smiley selection dialog rewritten to look nicer (Nathan Fredrickson) 46 * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person" (Richard Laager)
13 * If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it will 47 * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default
14 remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden) 48 (Peter McCurdy)
15 * Contacts will auto-expand when dragging into the buddy list 49
16 * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah) 50 Plugins:
17 * Add a "Last Seen" field to tooltips for buddies in your buddy 51 * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools
18 list (Richard Laager) 52 menu of the Buddy List
19 * Buddy icons in buddy list tooltips (Felipe Contreras) 53 * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting
20 * Custom smileys for MSN (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi) 54 Gaim (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
21 * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted alphabetically 55 * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
22 (Richard Laager) 56 * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more
57 intuitively (Benjamin Kahn with help from Richard Laager)
58 * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted
59 alphabetically (Richard Laager)
60 * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts
61 * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
62 * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm)
63 * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise)
64 * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within Gaim
65 (Piotr Zielinski)
66
67 MSN Features:
68 * Custom smiley support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
69 * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving
70 "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
71 * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
72
73 Yahoo Features:
74 * Stealth Settings have been implemented
75 * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach)
76 * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for
77 authorization
78
79 AIM/ICQ Features:
80 * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark)
81 * Many overall improvements to OSCAR file transfers (Jonathan Clark)
23 * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware" 82 * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware"
24 setting (Ettore Simone) 83 setting (Ettore Simone)
25 * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person," (contact, meta- 84 * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
26 contact, whatever) (Richard Laager) 85
27 * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi) 86 IRC Features:
28 * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC channel 87 * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah)
29 or change your nick (Richard Laager) 88 * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC
30 * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more 89 channel or change your nick (Richard Laager)
31 intuitively (Benjamin Kahn with help from Richard Laager) 90
32 * Full message background colors are now supported 91 Other Protocol Changes:
33 * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message 92 * Jabber support for SRV lookups
34 * Themeable mouse-over hyperlink coloring 93 * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno)
35 * Yahoo! Stealth Settings have been implemented. 94 * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler)
95 * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter)
96
97 Other Noteworthy Changes:
98 * UPNP and NAT traversal support (Adam J. Warrington)
36 * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display 99 * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display
37 better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) 100 better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury)
38 * GNOME users can open received files by clicking on "Open" in the file 101 * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse)
39 transfer window 102 * People using input methods can now use Enter again
40 * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting Gaim 103 * GNOME users can open received files by clicking on "Open" in the
41 (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) 104 file transfer window
42 * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts 105 * Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable
43 * Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS 106
44 directly 107 Preference Changes:
45 * Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for 108 * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up
46 authorization. 109 * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted
47 * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory
48 usage in active conversations.
49 * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving MSN
50 "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard)
51 * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN
52 * Jabber support for SRV lookups
53 * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default
54 (Peter McCurdy)
55 * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs
56 (James Vega)
57 * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey)
58 * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or
59 becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
60
61 Bug fixes:
62 * People using input methods can now use Enter again.
63 * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open
64 with the same name (Andrew Hart)
65 * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
66 * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins)
67 * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov)
68 * Show smiley theme descriptions correctly for the highlighted
69 smiley theme (Levi Bard) 110 smiley theme (Levi Bard)
70 111 * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of
71 Preference changes: 112 the buddy list window.
72 * Removed "Dim idle buddies" buddy list preference, default to "Yes." 113 * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may
73 * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-b/i/u and made sure they 114 still be overridden on a per-account basis.
74 won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme. 115 * Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled
75 * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley, 116 * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by
76 default to "No" 117 default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme
77 * Removed preference for buddy list button type, defaulted to "None" 118 * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley;
78 * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send, defaulted to "Enter" to send, 119 behavior removed from Gaim
79 made it possible to change this binding in your GTK theme. 120 * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default,
80 * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats," defaulted to "Yes." 121 but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme
81 Made screenname colors automatically adjust themselves to compensate for 122 * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now
82 background color. 123 always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves
83 * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" defaulted to "No" 124 to compensate for background color.
125 * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior
84 * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set" 126 * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set"
85 * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" from the buddy list 127 * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy
86 defaulted to "Yes". 128 list; behavior is now always enabled
87 * Removed "Auto-expand contacts" default to "No" 129 * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging
88 * Removed conversation buttons 130 buddies around the buddy list
89 * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences, moved feature to notify 131 * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences
90 plugin 132 * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to
91 * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles," default to "Yes". 133 the notify plugin
92 * Removed "Show formatting toolbars," made the option in the 134 * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled
93 conversation menu affect the global preference. 135 * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations'
94 * Removed "Show timestamps," defaulted to yes but made timestamp plugin 136 "Options" menu now affects the global preference
95 override this. 137 * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden
96 * Removed protocol options. 138 by the timestamp plugin
97 * Consolidated three ignore formatting options into a single one. 139 * Removed all protocol options pages
98 * Removed "Escape closes windows," defaulted to Ctrl-W. 140 * Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W
99 * Removed "Gaim usage" and the "Idle time reporting" selection, 141 * Removed "Gaim usage" and "Idle time reporting" preferences; behavior
100 always use mouse/keyboard when available. 142 now always uses mouse/keyboard when available
101 * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/ 143 * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become
102 become un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions", 144 un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these
103 all of these will be logged when the system log is enabled 145 will be logged when the system log is enabled
146 * Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been
147 consolidated into a single preference
104 148
105 version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005): 149 version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
106 * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins) 150 * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins)
107 * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT 151 * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT
108 (Jonathan Clark) 152 (Jonathan Clark)