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Date: 2006-09-26 12:23:53 -0700 (Tue, 26 Sep 2006)
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+Gaim Development Blog
+<p>
+Hi! A lot of people have been e-mailing and IMing me asking for updates about Gaim development:
+how things are going, what features we're working on, when it 2.0.0 will be released. Rather than
+responding to them all individually, I decided to start a blog where I can post regularly about
+what's going on and inform lots of people at once.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I've also set-up a <a href='http://gaim.sf.net/planet'>Planet</a> so other Gaim developers can follow
+suit and post about their own developments.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We'll be releasing a fourth beta of 2.0.0 soon (hopefully this weekend), and here's a glimpse of some
+of the new stuff we've worked on:
+</p>
+
+<h3>Global Buddy Icon Selector</h3>
+
+<img align='right' src='images/buddyiconselector.png'/>
+
+<p>
+There are about 5 questions that I get asked over and over and over again, and I've recently been
+taking steps to keep people from asking them. One of the questions I hear over and over and over
+is "How do I set my buddy icon?" The answer (Tools ⇨ Accounts ⇨ Modify) is hidden in an account
+setting and, apparently, very difficult to discover. An additional inconvenience is that people
+who want to use the same icon for each of their accounts have to set it individually, for each of
+their accounts.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+2.0.0beta4 will introduce a global buddy icon selector in the buddy list. Accounts will now use
+a single, global, buddy icon (unless otherwise configured), which is visible in the lower-right-hand
+corner of the buddy list, next to the status selector. Clicking it brings up a file dialog to select
+an icon, and you can also drag and drop an image onto it to set your icon. If you still want to set
+your icons individually by account, the Modify Account dialog still allows you to set one to use
+instead of the global.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Buddy List Group Indenting</h3>
+
+<img align='left' src='images/groupindent.png' />
+
+<p>
+Another thing people complain to me about fairly regularly is the indentation of buddies within a group.
+Some people like to keep their buddy list very narrow and this empty space keeps them from keeping it
+as narrow as they like.
+Because this indentation isn't drawn by Gaim directly, but by GTK+ (the library we use to draw our
+interface), the best answer we've been able to give is to edit the settings of that library. The details
+of exactly how to do so are tricky, and can vary from machine to machine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For 2.0.0beta4, we've changed the way we use this library to make the margin very small: as small as the
+little expander arrow (any smaller started to look funny). With the margin gone, we've given the groups a
+different background color to (hopefully) make it just as easy to differentiate between them, while making
+more efficient use of space.
+</p>
+
+<h3>libgaim and gaim-text</h3>
+
+<img align='right' src='images/gaimtext.png' />
+
+<p>
+I can't take much credit for this one personally, but it's too cool not to mention. 2.0.0beta4 will
+be the first official release of <code>libgaim</code>, the core functionality of Gaim, as a library
+for other programs to use. Other IM programs (e.g. <a href='http://adiumx.com'>Adium X</a>,
+<a href='http://meebo.com'>Meebo</a>) already exist using incomplete versions of <code>libgaim</code>,
+but 2.0.0beta4 will include a completed version of this library. Hopefully this will inspire even
+more programs to take advantage of <code>libgaim</code>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Gaim 2.0.0beta4 is actually two programs, both using <code>libgaim</code> as their backends. In
+addition to the standard Gaim graphical UI we have a text version of Gaim, written by Sadrul Chowdhury.
+<code>gaim-text</code> is really useful for UNIX users who can login to their computer remotely and
+run Gaim in text mode from anywhere. Sadrul's done a great job of making a really usable text-based
+application; hopefully he'll post about it some more himself.
+</p>
+
+<h3>2.0.0 Release</h3>
+
+<p>
+We're hoping beta4 will be the final beta before the final release of 2.0.0, but it's always possible
+one or more will be needed. I can't yet say when 2.0.0 will be released, but we're definitely getting
+really close. The current development releases are really good, and very stable. If you're here, you're
+probably interested in Gaim development, so please, install beta4 when it's released and let us know
+what you think.
+</p>
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