Tlhan Ghun Snarl extensions

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.3.1

Notes:
1. Installation
2. Configuration
3. Known limitations
4. Homepage / SourceCode
5. License

*** 1. INSTALLATION

- Get and install Pidgin at http://www.pidgin.im/
- Get and install Snarl at http://www.fullphat.net/
- Start Snarl
- Stop Pidgin if running
- Copy the "pidginSnarl.dll" and "pidgin_logo.png" into into the Plugins-directory of Pidgin (usually something like C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins)
- Start Pidgin
- Oben menu "Tools" -> "Plugins" in Pigin
- Search for PidginSnarl and enable it using the checkbox in front of it
- Restart Pidgin
- have fun

*** 2. CONFIGURATION

You can choose which notification types shall be displayed. Starting with PidginSnarl 0.3 and Snarl 2.0 some notifications are disabled by default - so have a look and maybe you find another notification you didn't saw before...

- After successfull installation right click on the Snarl-trayicon and choose "Settings"
- Navigate to tab "Applications"
- Choose PidginSnarl
- Enable or disable different types of notifications
- To get the "New email"-notifications you also need to enable the mail-notification in your account within Pidgin (tested with GMail)

*** 3. KNOWN LIMITATIONS

- Default-icon will only work if Pidgin is intalled in a folder called "Pidgin" under %ProgramFiles%
- In 0.2.1 it has been reported that PidginSnarl could crash on new mails if you are using the "new mail"-feature from GMail. 
  If you encounter such problems please report them for further investigation

*** 4. HOMEPAGE / SOURCECODE

The Homepage of PidginSnarl can be found at http://tlhan-ghun.de
The sourcecode is available in Subversion of SourceForge.net:
   svn co https://mozillasnarls.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mozillasnarls/PidginSnarl/ pidginsnarl
   Or browse subversion with this link: http://mozillasnarls.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mozillasnarls/PidginSnarl/
   
*** 5. LICENSE

PidginSnarl is licensed under GPL - see included LICENSE.txt

Changes:
0.3.1
reworked most of the displayed texts to just display the buddy name in the title
and the message itself to the body of the Snarl notification

0.3
- Added notifications for
 o buddy changing status
 o buddy changing icon
 o buddy starts writing
 o incoming authorozation requests
Some of those are disabled per defaut if you use Snarl 2.0

0.2.2
- commented out some old debugging stuff which hopefully improves stability
- made an own alert type for incoming messages if the chat window is active (so you can e-/disable the display in this case)

0.2.1
- Added new mail notification (tested with GMail)
- Added notifications on connection errors

0.2 
- Added default-icon
- fixed settings not working all the times 

0.1 
- First working version