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Gaim: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client that's good for the soul!
+ * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages, + away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten. + Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and + Sadrul Habib Chowdhury. + * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the + selector at the bottom of the window. + * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or + becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin + * 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 (Richard Laager) + * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around + * If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it + will remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden) + * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F + Conversations and Chats: + * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically + use the same conversation window. + * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate + "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list + * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi) + * Full message background colors are now supported + * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message + * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently from GNOME + * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory + usage in active conversations + * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs + * 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 + * Brand new message queueing system (Casey Harkins) + * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte) + * Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS directly + * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same Contact (Richard Laager) + * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default + * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools + * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting + Gaim (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 with help from Richard Laager) + * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted + alphabetically (Richard Laager) + * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts + * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey) + * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer + * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code) + * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within Gaim + (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 + * Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi) + * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving + "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard) + * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN + * Stealth Settings have been implemented + * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code) + * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for + * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark, + * Many overall improvements to OSCAR file transfers (Jonathan Clark, + * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware" + setting (Ettore Simone) + * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov) + * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah) + * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC + channel or change your nick (Richard Laager) + * Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv + commands (Joao Luís Marques Pinto) + * Support for SRV lookups + * Support for buddy icons + * Jabber User Directory searching + * Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen) + * Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen) + * Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen) + Other Protocol Changes: + * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google + * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of + * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code) + * Sametime protocol support + Other Noteworthy Changes: + * UPnP and NAT traversal support (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of + * 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) + * People using input methods can now use Enter again + * GNOME users can open received files by clicking on "Open" in the + * 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 + * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up + * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted + smiley theme (Levi Bard) + * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of + * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may + 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 + * 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. + * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior + * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set" + * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy + list; behavior is now always enabled + * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging + buddies around the buddy list + * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences + * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to + * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled + * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations' + "Options" menu now affects the global preference + * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden + by the timestamp plugin 