KouChat is a simple serverless chat client for local area networks. KouChat project is written in Java, and is free software.
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Here are some key features of "KouChat":
· Main chat
· Private chat
· Selectable text color for your user
· See when someone writes
· Away mode
· Topic
· File transfer
· System tray integration
· Sound notification when minimized to tray
· Logging
· No configuration needed
· Console mode
Requirements:
· Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved debug logging
· Added support for user specified network interface, in the settings
· Fix for "java.io.IOException: mark/reset not supported" when playing sound on newer versions of Java 6 (u33) and Java 7 (u5)
· Added the 4 status icons in svg format
· Added prescaled status icons for the system tray. 16x16px for Windows, 22x22px for KDE and 24x24px for Gnome
· Updated kou_shortcut.ico with sizes from 16x16px to 256x256px
· Updated kou_shortcut.png to 256x256px
· Fixed crash when starting KouChat on systems with the clock set to unix epoch, to support devices without a clock battery
· Fixed several Swing event dispatch thread issues
· Changed the /cancel command from /cancel to /cancel
· Changed the /receive command from /receive to /receive
· Changed the /reject command from /reject to /reject
· Fixed issue where file transfers were still shown in the /transfers command after a user had logged off without cancelling, rejecting or accepting the transfer
· Fixed repaint issue with the buttons when returning from the system tray, on some configurations