What's new in KMess 2.0.6
Feb 15, 2011
- Added tabs to the Contact Added User dialog.
- Added a fading effect when switching between the initial view and the contact list.
- Fixed login issues due to changes in the MSN protocol.
- Fixed possible crashes with the Contact Added User dialog.
- Fixed retrieval of display pictures from the online MSN storage.
- Various other smaller fixes...
New in KMess 2.0.5 (Nov 8, 2010)
- KMess now displays your previous conversation with a contact in the chat window.
- Significantly increased speed whilst loading chat history.
- Added a calendar feature to the chat history dialog.
- Added a button to the chat window to quickly access the chat history of contacts in the conversation.
- Added notifications for address book changes (contact added, removed, blocked, etc).
- Updated the Traditional Chinese translation.
- Updated the Estonian translation.
- Updated the Hungarian translation.
- Updated the French translation.
- Fix a crash bug that occurred during offline message parsing.
- Various other smaller fixes...
New in KMess 2.0.1 (Dec 1, 2009)
- added full handwriting support using our new ISF-Qt library.
- added Roaming support for display picture, friendly name and personal message.
- added ability to drag-and-drop an image to a chat, to send it.
- added chat window buttons to quickly change message font and color.
- added a "Log in automatically" checkbox to the initial view.
- fixed pixelated downscaling of pictures in the contact list?
- fixed multiple notification problems.
- fixed losing the friendly name on login.
- fixed some crashes and memory leaks.
- improved the emoticons settings.
- the transfers window now appears in the background instead of minimized.
- the minimum size of the message editor is now one line of text.
- and other smaller updates and fixes.
New in KMess 2.0 (Jul 27, 2009)
- Added:
- Ability to re-use previously opened chat windows after reconnecting.
- A dark chat style suitable for use with dark KDE color themes.
- A DBus remote control interface, to enable interaction with KMess from other applications.
- Application-wide settings dialog, which includes an account manager.
- A contact search box in the contact list.
- Automatic reconnection after unwanted disconnections, keeping the previous status.
- Connecting over HTTP, to deal with corporate firewalls which only allow connections to browse the web.
- Contact emoticon blacklist, to block annoying custom emoticons from contacts.
- A contact list exporting dialog.
- Options to copy a contact's email, name, message, listened music and links present in the name/message.
- Detection of network connection availability, using Solid.
- Fading effect for long text labels and the contact list.
- Fast-retype of previous sentences using Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down.
- Full MSN Plus text-formatting support in chat and in the contact list.
- Group selection box to the "add contact" dialog.
- IRC like command handling in the chat window (/away, etc..)
- KWallet support to store account passwords in a secure way.
- Likeback support to collect user feedback, ported from Basket of KDE 3.
- Chat logs history dialog.
- Full offline messaging support.
- Option to choose a directory where to put all received files.
- Option to choose a previously set display picture for the account.
- Option to choose the browser and e-mail client used to open Web links.
- Option to choose the dimensions of the pictures in the contact list.
- Option to choose the interval of ports used for fast file transfers.
- Option to disable displaying received winks.
- Option to display all offline contacts in a single group ("mixed" group mode).
- Option to hide currently empty groups.
- Support to configure the application's tool bars and menus.
- Support to send and receive handwritten messages (still doesn't work with some Messengers).
- Optional tabbed chatting support.
- A contact properties dialog.
- KDE proxy support.
- Fixed:
- Appearance when using right-to-Left languages, like Arabic.
- Bug preventing temporary accounts to be correctly cleaned up.
- Chat window focus issues.
- Disconnections after many hours of use.
- Displaying duplicated status messages.
- Improved:
- Appearance of the contact list when antialiasing is enabled.
- Chat logging support, now allowing saving chats as files in text or HTML format.
- Chat notifications to be compatible with the new Plasma notifications of KDE 4.2.
- Client name detection of contacts.
- Chat window appearance with movable panels.
- Protocol support, upgraded the server core protocol to MSNP15.
- Reporting of error messages, using notifications for warnings.
- The file transfer messages within the chat.
New in KMess 2.0 Beta 2 (May 16, 2009)
- fixed disconnections after many hours of use.
- fixed losing KDE Wallet passwords.
- fixed typing notifications not appearing in WLM 2009.
- fixed resending messages already sent as offline messages.
- fixed searching for offline contacts.
- fixed time of arrival of offline messages.
- fixed contact list group sorting.
- fixed many memory leaks.
- improved the Chat History dialog and its integration with KMess.
- improved drag and drop support in contact list.
- improved handwriting message sending.
- improved the file transfers window's behavior.
- improved chat session management.
- updated English handbook.
- 10 updated translations.
- Countless more bugs fixed.
New in KMess 2.0 Alpha 2 (Mar 22, 2009)
- MSN connections over HTTP, to deal with corporate firewalls
- Support for Ink (hand-written) messages
- Support for tabbed chatting.
- Support for MSN Plus text formatting
- Every dialog received a makeover.
- Chat Windows can be re-used again after reconnecting
- Support to chat with offline and invisible contacts
- Searchbox in the contact list
- Options to choose the browser and e-mail client used by KMess
- A lot of new highly requested options, like blocking notifications when busy, choosing file transfer ports, winks disabling, and contact list customization options.