NEWS in 0.10.2:
===============
- Add runtime controlled debugging facilities (Richard).
- Display an event in the group chat window when a user changes the
topic, previously it just happened with no indication of who changed
it or when (Kristian Rietveld).
- Changed the account ID for Jabber IDs back to 'username@server' and
make the resource a separate entity in the accounts.xml (note: there
is some extra code to make sure the same problems that occurred last
time don't reoccurr this time with invalid usernames when trying to
connect) (Martyn).
- Updated the spell checker dialog to use "Replace" instead of "OK"
(Martyn).
- Cleaned up the glade windows and dialogs so windows are not shown
automatically, this reduces flickering when they are created (Richard).
- Fixed the assistant used to add accounts so it now accepts a
username of username@server and make the resource optional on the next
(connections) page (Martyn).
- Fixed the add account assistant so that account details are properly
checked before proceeding to the following page (Martyn).
- Updated the personal information dialog so there is no longer a
progress bar when saving or loading, it just makes widgets
insensitive. Also the buttons are now Save and Cancel which is clearer
(Martyn).
- Fixed the jabber chatroom join presence handling so it actually
checks the presence message is for the right room instead of just
accepting any old presence message - this means auto-connecting on
startup works properly and will also give the correct error if you
can't join for some reason (Martyn).
- The chatrooms window now allows selection of multiple rooms for
joining, deleteing, etc and the dialog will close when a rooms are
joined. Chatrooms will also be joined on the treeview "row-activate"
signal now (Martyn).
- Updated the CSS used for logging so the font isn't so big (Martyn).
- Improve the X screensaver detection (Richard, Tommi Komulainen).
- Added the 'x' to close separate chat tabs back in (Richard, Martyn).
- Improve the build scripts (Richard, Bryan Pepple).
- Fixed#334890, Make it possible to forget saved passwords (Paul Van
Tilburg).
- Fixed#334390, Use iso-codes for the language names for spell
checking (Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Richard).
- Fixed#331910, Make the accounts info file not readable by others
than the owner (Richard).
- Fixed#332058, Don't spell check chat commands like "/me" (Ross
Burton).
- Fixed#332063, Don't spell check numberic strings, e.g. "1234" (Ross
Burton).
- Fixed#332169, Update the libnotify code to work with the 0.3.2 API
(Martyn, Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#332713, Use the default foreground colour for the classic
chat theme (Richard).
- Fixed#332240, Change some keyboard mnemonics for chat windows
(Brian Pepple).
Translations:
Clytie Siddall (vi)
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
Mikhail Zabaluev (ru)
Øivind Hoel (nb)
Richard Hult (sv)
Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)
Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
News in 0.10.1:
===============
- Changed the accounts dialog and removed the enable/disable account
checkbutton in the accounts list, it was pointless (Martyn).
- Changed the account button tooltip to only show the account id and
any error that might of occurred (Martyn).
- Added typing notification on the roster (Martyn, Richard).
- Added a chat theme selection in the preferences to choose between
Classic and Blue (which is a block message format), try it!
(Richard).
- Don't ellipsize text in the menu created for status presets, this
usually is not shown in full when using the menu on the tray icon
(Martyn).
- Added libnotify support for contacts coming online and sending first
time messages (note: this only works with libnotify 0.2.1 at the
moment, not with the 0.3.x API, if you have 0.3.x you might have to
disable it with configure --disable-libnotify) (Martyn).
- Use a GtkWindow instead of a GnomeApp for the main window. The
widget spacing for toolbars and menus is much better now (Martyn).
- Fixed#306719, Make sure Wordstar style key bindings work (i.e
Ctrl+Insert copies, Ctrl+Delete and cuts Shift+Insert pastes)
(Richard).
- Fixed#332052, Be more flexible with DTD validation in XML files
(Richard, Ross Burton).
- Fixed#332423, Make sure special characters are escaped when saving
to XML files (for accounts, presets, and contact groups) (Richard,
Jonatan Magnusson).
- Fixed#322030, Added the 'x' button back onto chat tabs to close
conversations (Richard, Sjoerd Simons)
- Fixed#332333, Fixed weird menu detachment behaviour (Diego
González).
- Fixed#142188, Don't scroll the chat window when drag and dropping
across them (Richard).
- Fixed#165565, Don't scroll the chat window when on the first or
last tab and pressing Ctrl+Pg[Up|Down] (Richard)
- Fixed#172013, Make sure group chat windows scroll to the bottom
(Richard)
- Fixed#332020, Corrected some UI typos (Clytie Siddall)
- Fixed#331664, Don't crash when trying to connect with an error
about a missing resource in the account id, instead we now signal the
error and the user is informed so they are able to correct it
(Martyn).
- Fixed#331707, Depend on GTK+ 2.8 because we are using some GTK+
stock icons from it (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#331868, Corrected some UI typos (Clytie Siddall).
Translations:
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
- David Nielsen (da)
- Jordi Mallach (ca)
- Miloslav Trmac (cs)
- Richard Hult (sv)
- Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)
News in 0.10:
=============
- Added support for changing topics in group chat (Martyn).
- Added support incoming message sound if your name is used in group
chat (Martyn).
- Reworked the chat code in places and added the beginings of a theme
engine (Richard).
- Reworked the group chat join code (Martyn).
- Reworked the group chat configuration to use an XML file (Martyn).
- Reworked the status preset code (Richard).
- Reworked the status preset configuration to use an XML file (Martyn,
Richard).
- Added *VERY* basic support for file transfer (this means you can
respond to incoming requests, but you can not accept or initiate them)
(Martyn).
- Added Help->Contents (Brian Pepple and Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Added new DBus API for post-net-up and pre-net-down so things can
clean up (Mikael).
- Use the Gnome smiley theme so there are now more emote icons that
can be used in chat (Martyn):
:* = Kiss
:s = Confused
:@ = Angry
*| = Sorry
*) = Look Away
:x = Oooh
*s = Blush
8D = Cool Big Smile
<) = Angel
@) = Boss
#) = Monkey
O) = Silly
+o( = Sick
- Added "composing" support back into Gossip (Martyn).
- Added "auto_connect" feature for accounts when starting Gossip
(Martyn).
- Clean up unused ellipsize and tree model filter code borrowed from
libegg which is now in GTK+ (Richard).
- Fixed#331229, Avoid critical warning when getting presence
information about offline contacts (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- Fixed#331412, Use "Remove" and "Cancel instead of "Yes" and "No"
when removing a contact (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- Fixed#331228, GTK+ gtk_widget_hide() warning causing a crash (Diego
González).
- Fixed#330830, Make sure the chatrooms window clears widget values
when closed (since it is hidden) (Paul Van Tilburg).
- Fixed#330828, Make sure the nickname for chatrooms is honored (Paul
Van Tilburg).
- Fixed#330916, Missing files in POTFILES.in (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#306321, Make sure errors returned from failed registration
attempts are more user friendly rather than esoteric (Joe Shaw).
- Fixed#131290, Fixed nickname used in chat to be the full name from
the users vcard, which is also now set when registering new accounts
(Michal Janeczek).
- Fixed#321569, Possibility to set server seperately from jabber id
in the startup wizard (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#325841, Support automatically joining chat rooms when
connecting to the server (Martyn, Ross Burton).
- Fixed#325740, Fixed crasher when joining the same group chat for
the 2nd time (Martyn).
- Fixed#325378, Updated help documentation to reflect the latest
user interface changes (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#308041, Made the show/hide contact list configurable from the
main menu not just the notification area (Radomir Dopieralski).
- Fixed#321801, Don't send "composing" notification from every
account, only from the account that has that contact (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#119971, Support inviting people to group chat rooms (Mikael
Hallendal).
- Fixed#325258, Make sure the default vcard is looked up when showing
the Personal Information dialog (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#141225, Added status and resource information to the Contact
Information dialog (jon@tgpsolutions.com).
- Fixed#322775, Reworked the Chat->New Message dialog (Martyn, Brian
Pepple).
- Fixed#323099, Made name and group configurable on new subscriptions
(Maciej Katafiasz).
- Fixed#305103, Translation bugs in jabber transport modules (Gabor
Kelemen).
- Fixed#322712, Build issues with DBus and Galago (Brian Pepple).
- Fixed#321538, Windows and dialogs have transients to positioned
children over their parents (Christian Neumair, Martyn).
- Fixed#316925, Added support for Galago (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#314848, Disable sound when showing/hiding offline contacts
(Martyn).
- Fixed#316172, Stop sending blank messages with "composing"
information (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#317107, Fixed GossipAccountButton implementation (Martyn,
Tommi Komulainen).
- Fixed#135472, Added shortcut (Escape) to hide main window (Edd
Dumbill).
- Fixed#316340, Make sure newly opened chat windows get focus (Keywan
Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Fixed#316917, Added "presence-changed" signal to the session for
Galago (Ross Burton).
- Fixed#316625, Resolved build issues with pkg-config (Tommi
Komulainen).
- Fixed#316621, Make the offline GossipAccountButton icon clearer
(Tommi Komulainen).
- Fixed#315181, Moved DBus initiation out of libgossip (Brian
Pepple).
- Fixed#153110, Resolved group chat text wrapping issues (Sven
Salzwedel).
- Fixed#165404, Support registering using SSL (Martyn, Mikael,
skadz@mindstorm.com).
- Fixed#165519, Support configuring multiple accounts (Martyn).
- Fixed#314140, Resolved "Login" grammar error (Adam Weinberger).
- Fixed#155135, Added confirmation dialog when trying to quit with
unread messages, subscriptions, etc (Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Fixed#142192, Make dragging contacts into chat windows highlight
the target to make things clearer and only drop when the button is
released (Sjoerd Simons).
- Fixed#151859, Stop the new message icon flashing on a contact when
dragging them to a chat window (Paul van Tilburg).
- Fixed#160216, Make the add contact druid continue when pressing
Next (bram@luon.net).
- Fixed#141787, Support adding contacts from a chat window (Brad
Taylor).
- Fixed#156285, Added completion to the status preset dialogs
(Martyn).
- Fixed#313486, Stop crash when joining a group chat and canceling it
immediately after (Brian Pepple).
Translations:
- Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)
- Christian Rose (sv)
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Jaydeep Bhusal (ne)
- Pawan Chitrakar (ne)
- Richard Hult (sv)
- Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
* This release features a large refactoring to make further development
easier.
* Part of the works has also been to make the current features more stable
and better implement.
* Most of the work on this release has been carried out by Mikael Hallendal
and Martyn Russel.
* UPDATE NOW!
* Fixed#151737 (Martyn)
* Group chats now support tabbed windows (Geert-Jan)
* If only one window exists, open new chats in that window (Martyn)
* Fixed window title (Micke)
* Fixed issue when Gossip sent replies to error messages (Micke)
* New translations (nb, tr, bg)
* Updated translations (cs, pt_BR, fr, de, ca, da, nl, no, en_CA, zh_TW,
en_GB, lt, eu, sv)
News in 0.7.8:
==============
* Add support for disabling system proxy (Ross Burton)
* Typo fixes (Richard)
* Updated translations (sv, en_CA)
News in 0.7.7:
==============
* Make the groupchat input area the same as in chats (Geert-Jan)
* Improved URL recognizer (Johan Hammar)
* Fixed name bug when chatting with people not in your contact list (Micke)
* Cut supported in chat windows (cuts from input area) (Thomas Reynolds)
* Support for specifying both JID and connect server (Micke)
* Support for HTTP proxy, uses desktop global settings (Micke)
* Notify on updates in the contact list (Change the background on that row
for 7 seconds) (Martyn)
* New translations (ga)
* Updated translations
(cs, nl, en_GB, lt, cy, sq, ru, eu, en_CA, es, nl, pt, da)
* Lot of bug fixing gone into the Group Chats (Micke)
* Drag contacts from roster to chat windows to start a chat (Micke)
* Show new message icon as window icon when new message
arrived (Sergey Dolgopolov)
* Crash fixes (Micke)
* Allow IP-numbers as hostpart of the JID (Fabio Bonelli)
* Added copy&paste to chat windows. (Micke)
* Fixed drawing error in chat windows tabs with certain themes
(Geert-Jan)
* Shrink chat windows after long messages has been sent
(Micke, Lionel Henry)
* Store log files as lowercase JID. (Micke)
* Resubscribe support if subscription isn't both way (Ross Burton)
* Show presence icon in new message popup list (Micke)
* Added support for editing your own vCard (Martyn Russel, Micke)
* New translations (en_CA, uk, eo, ar)
* Updated translations:
(lt, cs, en_GB, nl, ca, pt_BR, sv, zh_CN, da, pl, pt)
* SSL support when registering (Ross Burton)
* Registering support for Jabberd 2 (Sjoerd Simons)
* Fixed the nick highlighting code (Micke)
* Re-enabled private chat through group chat (Micke)
* Fixed group chat nick completion code (Micke)
* Fixed crasher bug in logging code (Richard)
* New translations (pt_BR, en_GB, lt)
* Updated translations (cs, nl, da, ca, hr, zh_CN, no, es, cy)
News in 0.7.3:
* Fix transient window behaviour, Mikael.
* Fix bugs with the flashing icons, Richard.
* Propagate status updates to group chat, Martyn Russell.
* Show dialog when authentication fails. Martyn, Richard.
* Behave better when the notification area is removed, Qball Cow.
* Plug leaks, Richard.
* Updated translations (cs, da, eu, fr, nl, sr, sr@Latn, sv)
* Make the status icon flash when going to and from away state.
* Show the contact list if it's visible on another workspace when toggling
visibility.
* Make links clickable in logs.
* Handle incoming private chats through group chats correctly.
* An experimental and optional dbus interface.
* Add status submenu to the notification area icon.
* Limit the length of the status text in the contact list.
* Plug memory leaks.
* When detaching a tab, put the new window at the pointer.
* Updated translations (ca, cs, es, hr, nl, no, sr, sr@Latn, sv).
News in 0.7:
============
* Fixes to the chat window (URL matching, clear chat)
* New application icon from Dan Taylor
* Chat window entry autoexpands instead of using a disclosure widget
* Store state of contact list (visibility, position and size) between
sessions
* Don't show groups with no contacts
* Presence setting system greatly improved
* Edit groups support added
* Made the autoback timeout longer (30 secs)
* Better keynav support
* A couple of crash fixes
* Several smaller bugs fixed
* Updated and new translations (ca, cs, da, es, eu, it, ms, nl, no, pt,
sr@Latn, sr, sv)
Patch provided by Soren Jacobsen in PR 23768
Changes since 0.5:
* Improved contact list
* New presence system
* New icons
* Tabbed chat windows
* Conversation logging
* Nicer timestamping
* Many bug fixes and small improvements
* Updated and new translations (az, ca, cs, cy, da, de, es, fr, fr, it,
nl, no, pl, pt, ru, sr, sr@Latn, sv, zh_CN, zh_TW)
Gossip is a modern client for the Jabber Instant Messaging system.
It aims at making Instant Messaging with Jabber as easy as possible,
while giving users of the GNOME desktop a user-friendly way of keeping
in touch with their friends.
