February 15th, 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...
November 8th, 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...
December 1st, 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.
July 27th, 2009Added:
· 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.
May 16th, 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.
March 22nd, 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.
Find us on Google+
