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KMess 2.0 released
July 24 2009, the INTERNETS -- The KMess team announces today the immediate availability of KMess 2.0. This is the first stable release of the KMess 2 series, in development since January 2008, one and a half years ago. KMess 2.0 is our newest, best, most fresh release yet, and everybody is encouraged to upgrade to it.The most obvious difference between our last stable release, KMess 1.5.2, and this release is the transition to KDE 4. Other than that, these things have changed: - added ability to re-use previously opened chat windows after reconnecting. - added a dark chat style suitable for use with dark KDE color themes. - added a DBus remote control interface, to enable interaction with KMess from other applications. - added application-wide settings dialog, which includes an account manager. - added a contact search box in the contact list. - added automatic reconnection after unwanted disconnections, keeping the previous status. - added connecting over HTTP, to deal with corporate firewalls which only allow connections to browse the web. - added contact emoticon blacklist, to block annoying custom emoticons from contacts. - added a contact list exporting dialog. - added options to copy a contact's email, name, message, listened music and links present in the name/message. - added detection of network connection availability, using Solid. - added fading effect for long text labels and the contact list. - added fast-retype of previous sentences using Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down. - added full MSN Plus text-formatting support in chat and in the contact list. - added group selection box to the "add contact" dialog. - added IRC like command handling in the chat window (/away, etc..) - added KWallet support to store account passwords in a secure way. - added Likeback support to collect user feedback, ported from Basket of KDE 3. - added chat logs history dialog. - added full offline messaging support. - added option to choose a directory where to put all received files. - added option to choose a previously set display picture for the account. - added option to choose the browser and e-mail client used to open Web links. - added option to choose the dimensions of the pictures in the contact list. - added option to choose the interval of ports used for fast file transfers. - added option to disable displaying received winks. - added option to display all offline contacts in a single group ("mixed" group mode). - added option to hide currently empty groups. - added support to configure the application's tool bars and menus. - added support to send and receive handwritten messages (still doesn't work with some Messengers). - added optional tabbed chatting support. - added a contact properties dialog. - added KDE proxy support. - fixed appearance when using right-to-Left languages, like Arabic. - fixed bug preventing temporary accounts to be correctly cleaned up. - fixed chat window focus issues. - fixed disconnections after many hours of use. - fixed displaying duplicated status messages. - improved appearance of the contact list when antialiasing is enabled. - improved chat logging support, now allowing saving chats as files in text or HTML format. - improved chat notifications to be compatible with the new Plasma notifications of KDE 4.2. - improved client name detection of contacts. - improved chat window appearance with movable panels. - improved protocol support, upgraded the server core protocol to MSNP15. - improved reporting of error messages, using notifications for warnings. - improved the file transfer messages within the chat. - fixed a lot of other bugs and made numerous other improvements.The screenshots page at kmess.org, <http://kmess.org/screenshots/>, provides a detailed overview of the larger changes in KMess 2.0, as opposed to KMess 1.5.2.You can find the source code at our website, <http://kmess.org/download/>, and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon. Thanks to 44 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 14 languages. Other people, without whom this release would not be what it is today, as well as the current members of the KMess team, are listed on our People page at <http://kmess.org/people/>.Any remarks, notes, declarations of love as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums, at <http://kmess.org/board/>. You can also send us messages using the LikeBack client built into KMess, accessible via Help -> Send a Comment to the Developers. We wish you a lot of fun and chatting with our best release of KMess ever!
2009-07-25 07:44:57 UTC by it_amroth
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KMess 2.0 beta 1 released
KMess 2.0 beta 1 releasedWe proudly announce the first beta of KMess 2. KMess 2 beta 1 brings MSN support for KDE 4 to a new level! In this release we've added a lot of new features.The most significant additions to KMess 2.0 beta 1 are: * Added Plasma Notifications * Added option to configure toolbars and shortcuts. * Added automatic reconnection after disconnections. * Added support to send previously received winks * Added option to blacklist annoying custom emoticons. * Added 'Send with KMess' menu item in Konqueror context menus. * Added Likeback support for better user feedback. * Added IRC like commands in the chat window (/away, etc...) * Added ability to export your contactlist. * Improved emoticon panels and contact sidebar. * Improved chat window status bar. * Improved chat logging and addition of a log browser. * Improved fallback to HTTP connections * Improved offline chatting support. * Improved KDE session restoring. * Improved support for WLM 2009. * Various user interface improvements. * Updated server core protocol to MSNP15. * Updates of various translations. * A ton of bugfixes.We've also put a lot of effort in polishing things up. Thanks to the help of our beta testers we've been able to iron out a lot of issues. If anything isn't working for you, please let us know!
2009-03-27 11:34:44 UTC by it_amroth
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KMess 1.5.2 released
While the development of KMess 2 is fully underway, the most useful things have been backported to a 1.5.2 release for KDE 3 users.
The most significant changes to KMess 1.5.2 are:
* Improved support for WLM 2009.
* Improved offline messages.
* Improved opening links in a webbrowser (especially for Gnome users).
* Updated some translations.
* Various bugfixes and smaller enhancements.
2009-03-27 11:34:11 UTC by it_amroth
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KMess 1.5 released
The KMess development team is very pleased to announce version 1.5 of KMess, a MSN Messenger client for KDE!
After a long time of development from version 1.4 first, and the 1.5-pre series after, we've been able to obtain a very stable and feature-filled version. This will also mark a great moment: KMess 1.5 will be the last version based on Qt 3 and KDE 3. The next major version will be based on Qt 4 / KDE 4, and we expect more exciting improvements in the near future.
== KMess ==
KMess is an alternative MSN Messenger chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.
== Changes ==
Users of KMess 1.5-pre2 will might notice that file transfers have become stable while operating full-speed. The chat windows received some final love and the notification ballons got a total make over to make use of native KDE popups. We also added the ability to send custom emoticons, and added the necessary improvements to make it stable, polished and worth releasing.
Users of the last official stable release (1.4.3) will notice the quite some new interesting features. Most parts of the user interface have been improved. Combined with rich colorful chat styles it's a refreshing breeze for the eyes.
This release brings the MSN support to a level we're happy with.
During the development of KMess 1.5-pre1 and pre2, we've added support for the things you'd expect from a MSN Messenger client. That's nudges, now playing information, custom emoticons, personal messages, fast file transfers and automatic download of display pictures. To make sure you don't miss something in a conversation, Winks and offline messages can also be received, being able to send those as well is still a todo.
== License ==
KMess is released under the GPL version 2.
== More information about KMess ==
homepage: http://www.kmess.org/
screenshots: http://www.kmess.org/screenshots/
downloads: http://www.kmess.org/download/
changelog: http://www.kmess.org/changes/1.5/
=== Final words ==
It has been quite a while since we've released an official stable version, and we'd love to speed things up a little in the future.
New developers are invited to check out http://trac.kmess.org/! This site gives you more inside information about what we're doing, and also provides tutorials to help with translations, chat styles or code development as well.
For now, enjoy this release! We're excited about it, and hope you'll be as well. Feedback, patches or suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
The KMess team.
2008-01-19 12:22:46 UTC by codingdomain
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KMess 1.0 released.
KMess is finally considered stable and basic-feature-complete, though it's been stabler and more feature-ful than many MSN clients for a while now.
KMess Feature list
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MSN Messenger protocol compatibility
Font and font color support, including the ability to force contact messages to appear in a particular font and color.
Full emoticon support, featuring a custom GPLed emoticon set and the ability to use different emoticon themes.
File transfer support, both sending and receiving.
Hotmail support, with new email notifications, the inbox count, and the ability to open Hotmail at the user's inbox or at the composition page.
The ability to disable and hide email information for accounts that don't use Hotmail.
Support for multiple user profiles.
Autologging, either at the setting page for from the commandline (with "kmess --autologin blah@hotmail.com"; for example).
A contact list that can organize contacts by group or by online/offline status.
Groups show a count of the contacts online (i.e. "Friends (2/5)")
The user can specify particular contact images and sounds to be displayed when a contact comes online or in a chat.
The user can specify a name for a contact, overriding the contact's specified name.
The user can choose on a contact-by-contact basis whether the user should be notified when a particular contact comes online or goes offline.
KMess can show a contact's MSN profile, and open the MSN search pages.
In addition to the usual user statuses of "Away" and "Busy" and so on, there is the status "Away with Autoreply" that will reply to contact's chat messages with a user-specified away message.
The chat window has been redesigned with a new sidebar (which can be toggled with Ctrl+T) with an emphasis on contact images.
The chat window notifies the user that a contact is typing by "glowing" the contact's image.
Chats can be logged automatically and the chats ordered in subdirectories by day, week, or month, or not ordered at all.
Chats can be configured to show timestamps when contacts send messages.
A "compact" chat format can be used to remove extraneous line breaks and reduce the size of the chat.
The chat window caption in the taskbar alternates between lower and upper case to inform the user of a received message when the window is not on top.
Internationalization support, with translations in: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, French, Catalan, Arabic, Korean, Norsk, and Thai
There is now a method, though not absolute, to tell if a contact is blocking you. If a chat is started with a contact that appears offline, you will be informed if the contact is offline or online and blocking you.
2003-03-05 20:23:08 UTC by mkb137
