[Kmess-devel] KMess after 1.2 release...

[Jan <jan...@we...>]

Hi List!

After KMess 1.2 is released now, it is time in my opinion to discuss and=20
organize stuff at, how Arend said, "our baby" ;)

There are two people AFAIK, who are intrested in developing at KMess. This =
is=20
first Lin Haoxiang (better known to as alias "damm"), he is making the=20
chinese translation of KMess right now, else he has fixed a bug at the=20
filetransfer of KMess. AFAIK damm is very intrested in VoiceChat, and he=20
likes the Sidebar in the MSN Messenger.... ;) . BTW... I read in one of the=
=20
last KDE CVS Digests(1), that Kopete(2) has initial VoiceChat support, usin=
g=20
KPhone(3). Maybe damm can tell us more about his intentions... :)

The second one is Jens Wolfgarten. Jens contacted me because he wants to he=
lp=20
the KMess project whereever help is needed. He will AFAIK maintain the KMes=
s=20
packages for Debian. Else he told me about scripting support for KMess. May=
be=20
you can tell us more about your thoughts as well.

Coming now to actuall development on KMess or maybe still suggestions.

AFAIK does Michael work on a Theme-Browser right now.Can you,. Michael, tel=
l=20
us about it, explain it a bit, give some screenshots? ;)

Mike is working on implementing a chat-appearance preview. As well.. can yo=
u=20
give us an overview?

Arend sent some patches to the mailinglist allready adding "/me" support as=
=20
available in Messenger Plus(4).  Messenger Plus support was also requested =
in=20
the KMess Help-Forum (5). I contacted Christian M=FCller (he made the defau=
lt=20
KMess sounds) to ask him to make some sounds for the /shello /sdoh=20
/sevillaugh /skiss and /sbrb commands as supported in Messenger Plus. He=20
answered me that he will do so, but it can take some time. I think it will =
be=20
ready for KMess 1.3. :) (I will meet him BTW between the 16th and 18th May.=
=2E.=20
Maybe something will happen concerning that stuff within that days ;) ) Wha=
t=20
other features does the Messenger Plus have? Maybe someone can figure it ou=
t=20
and post the features here as reply to this email. Developer can discuss=20
about supporting other features then as well or not. :)

Support for the MSN whiteboard was requested(6). Michael already responded =
to=20
the request. What do the other Developers say?

A network windows simmilar to the one in LICQ was requested(7). Comments?

I think that's all i know for now... Please see this email as base for a=20
discussion about future development on KMess.

I am intrested at your responses .... ;)

	Jan :)



(1) =3D http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/apr252003.html
(2) =3D http://kopete.kde.org
(3) =3D http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/
(4) =3D http://www.msgplus.net/
(5) =3D http://kmess.sourceforge.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=3D65
(6) =3D http://kmess.sourceforge.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=3D67
(7) =3D http://kmess.sourceforge.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=3D62