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From: Adam G. <fon...@km...> - 2011-02-17 10:17:48
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February 17 2011 -- The KMess team announces today the availability of the latest release of KMess: KMess 2.0.6.1, the newest version of the Live Messenger (MSN) client, powered by the KDE platform. This release of KMess addresses a critical issue discovered after 2.0.6 which prevented successful login. Here is a quick highlight of the changes in 2.0.6: * Added a fading effect when logging in * Fix crash when taking any action in the Contact Added User dialog * Fixed retrieval of display pictures from MSN storage * Fix bugs which prevented KMess from logging in, stating, "connection has been lost" * Updated French translation * Updated Turkish translation * Updated Catalan translation * Updated German translation * Updated Japanese translation * Updated Spanish translation * Various other smaller updates and fixes... The screenshots page [0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess looks like. You can find the source code at the downloads page [1], and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon. Thanks to 28 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 19 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 [2]. Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums [3]. 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 KMess! -- The KMess team [0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/ [1] http://kmess.org/download/ [2] http://kmess.org/people/ [3] http://kmess.org/board/ |
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From: Valerio P. <va...@km...> - 2010-10-26 00:07:48
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October 25 2010 -- The KMess team announces today the availability of the
latest release of KMess: KMess 2.0.5, the newest version of the Live
Messenger (MSN) client, powered by the KDE platform. As usual with our
2.0 point releases, it contains a lot of bug fixes, but also general
improvements, and even some new features. Here is a quick highlight of
the changes in this new version:
* 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...
The screenshots page [0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess looks
like.
You can find the source code at the downloads page [1], and binary
packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon.
Thanks to 28 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 19
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 [2].
Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be
posted at our forums [3]. 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
KMess!
--
The KMess team
[0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/
[1] http://kmess.org/download/
[2] http://kmess.org/people/
[3] http://kmess.org/board/
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From: Adam G. <fon...@km...> - 2010-07-30 23:33:00
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July 26 2010 -- The KMess team announces today the availability of the
latest release of KMess: KMess 2.0.4, the newest version of the Live
Messenger (MSN) client, powered by the KDE platform. As usual with our
2.0 point releases, it contains a lot of bug fixes, but also general
improvements, and even some new features. Here is a quick highlight of
the changes in this new version:
* Added a small toggle button on the contact list to quickly
enable/disable the "Now Listening" feature.
* Implemented the new KDE4 system tray specification.
* Added ability to drag-and-drop ink drawings from the
conversation into the ink editor in order to be edited again.
* Fixed bug which caused KMess to fail to connect, instead giving
an "Invalid Command Parameter" error.
* Fixed bug which caused the user's display picture to be reset upon login.
* Fixed bug where status was not changed from Idle upon wake up from sleep.
* Updated many translations.
* And various other smaller updates and fixes...
The screenshots page [0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess looks like.
You can find the source code at the downloads page [1], and binary
packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon.
Thanks to 26 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 19
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 [2].
Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be
posted at our forums [3]. 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
KMess!
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The KMess team
[0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/
[1] http://kmess.org/download/
[2] http://kmess.org/people/
[3] http://kmess.org/board/
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From: Adam G. <fon...@km...> - 2010-03-11 12:15:09
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March 10 2010 -- The KMess team announces today the immediate availability of our latest point release: KMess 2.0.3, the newest version of a Live Messenger (MSN) client powered by the KDE platform. It contains a slew of bug fixes, general improvements, but also some nice new features: * Drag-and-drop an image to your display picture to change it. * Set your friendly name and personal message by clicking on their labels in the contact list. * Significantly improved performance when drawing complex inks (in isf-Qt). * Show unread email count in the system tray tooltip. * Improved proxy support. * Set the personal message using DBus. * Replaced QCA with GCrypt. * Fixed crash that sometimes occurred when logging in with the wrong password. * Fixed bug which caused the "Contact Added User" dialog to appear at next logon after deleting a contact. * Fixed bug which caused the chat window size to not be saved under KDE 4.4. * Added a Russian translation by Dmitriy Simbiriatin. * Added a Portuguese translation by Bruno Almeida. * Updated various translations. * And various other smaller updates and fixes... The screenshots page[0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess looks like. You can find the source code at the downloads page[1], and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon. Thanks to 26 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 19 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[2]. Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums[3]. 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 KMess! -- The KMess team [0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/ [1] http://kmess.org/download/ [2] http://kmess.org/people/ [3] http://kmess.org/board/ |
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From: Sjors G. <sj...@km...> - 2009-12-05 15:54:58
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November 5 2009 -- The KMess team announces today the immediate availability of our second point release: KMess 2.0.2. It is a small bugfix release for a bug introduced just before the release of KMess 2.0.1, making it impossible to log in twice in the same KMess session. Also, these translations were updated: * Traditional Chinese, by Yen-chou Chen. * Brazilian Portuguese, by Maurício Arozi Moraes. * Japanese, by Daniel E. Moctezuma. You can find the source code at the downloads page[0], and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon. Thanks to 25 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 16 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[1]. Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums[2]. 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 KMess! -- The KMess team [0] http://kmess.org/download/ [1] http://kmess.org/people/ [2] http://kmess.org/board/ |
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From: Sjors G. <sj...@km...> - 2009-12-01 09:44:00
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November 30 2009 -- The KMess team announces today the immediate availability of our first point release: KMess 2.0.1, the newest version of a Live Messenger (MSN) client powered by the KDE platform. It contains a slew of bug fixes, general improvements, but also some nice new features: * 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. The screenshots page[0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess looks like. You can find the source code at the downloads page[1], and binary packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon. Thanks to 25 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 16 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[2]. Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be posted at our forums[3]. 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 KMess! -- The KMess team [0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/ [1] http://kmess.org/download/ [2] http://kmess.org/people/ [3] http://kmess.org/board/ |
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From: Sjors G. <sj...@km...> - 2009-07-24 23:56:43
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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!
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From: Sjors G. <sj...@km...> - 2009-07-24 17:00:57
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Hello nobody, This is an announcement that we now have an e-mail list currently nobody is subscribed to! Yay! Sjors PS: Yes, this should be considered a test message. |