Saros - Distributed Party Programming Files

Saros - Distributed Party Programming for Eclipse
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The Saros Team got some more developers and so we are pleased to announce
the release 13.12.6. This release fixes bugs, and brings new features and
improvements.

   * Now you can send and use hyperlinks via chat.

   * Cleaner "Create Account form" and detailed invitation page. Now you see
     the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page, and you get
     detailed information about the file count and total file size also for 
     partially shared projects.

   * You could now enable/disable all four sound events separately. These
     sound events are "contact comes online/offline" and "chat message
     sent/received". Prior to Saros 13.12.6 you could only enable/disable 
     the sound when receiving a chat message.

   * We changed the logic of the follow mode toolbar button. Clicking on the
     button will now switch the follow mode to the next session user. 
     Furthermore a dropdown menu has been added to select a specific user 
     who should be followed.

   * Unfortunately we had to cut off one piece of functionality: only the
     session host can add projects to sessions. This was a necessary 
     regression to gain more stability and ensure data integrity. We're
     working on this and are confident to be able to re-enable this feature
     soon.

Additionally, you will find many minor fixes and usability improvements.
(For details, see the changelog below.)

For stability reasons some internal changes have been made.
As a consequence Saros 13.12.6 is *not* compatible with previous versions,
so that all session participants need Saros 13.12.6 to work together.

Install and update Saros 13.12.6 via our Eclipse Update Site:
   http://dpp.sf.net/update

For more information visit http://www.saros-project.org.

Many thanks to the users who participated in our survey and
to everyone who helped us improve our plug-in!


Best Regards,
Saros-Team



CHANGELOG
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/*GUI/UI changes*/
[GUI] Logic of follow mode toolbar button is changed
[GUI] Removed "random" auto follow option
[GUI] Detailed sound playback selection
[GUI] Non-Host users can't add projects to sessions anymore
[GUI] show the nickname of the inviter on the invitation page
[GUI] Invitation Wizard now properly displays partially shared projects
[GUI] cleaned up the "Create Account form"
[GUI] Name tags on cursor of remote users
[GUI] Inconsistency icon now "flashes" on detected inconsistency 
[GUI] New and more comprehensible inconsistency icons
[GUI] Rename "buddy" to "contact" because not everyone is a buddy 
[GUI] Placed the host on top of the roster during a running session
[GUI] Moved Contribution Annotation Setting to Saros > Appearance
[GUI] Better error descriptions in case of connecting errors
[GUI] Show error dialogs after the wizard has closed

/*Features*/
[FEATURE] Hyperlinks for chat communication
[FEATURE] #91 Other users can now be removed from sessions by the host

/*Bugfixes*/
[FIX] #605 Saros doesn't reliably detect a broken internet connection
[FIX] #609 Fixed sizes for all wizards causes not visible elements
[FIX] #335 Fatal error of a user does not remove them from session
[FIX] #798 Fixed changes for a shared project *without* asking the user
[FIX] #634 Shared icon annotation missing for files on host side
[FIX] #226 After a connection error, Saros infinitly tried to reconnect
[FIX] #436 Can't reconnect after connection error
[FIX] #799 Finish button is not enabled when restoring file selections
[FIX] #808 Fixed Inconsistencies after invitation
[FIX] #807 Beep notification doesn't work when receiving a chat message
[FIX] #735 Fixed corrupted files error while negotiation process
[FIX] #749 Resources could be changed during project negotiation
[FIX] #787 Needbased backup calculates checksums of dirty files
[FIX] #732 No feedback when checksums are calculated
[FIX] #795 Existing Contribution Annotations are not updated after a color change
[FIX] #684 Fixed problems with wrong Connection States
[FIX] #697 Change "buddy" to "contact"
[FIX] #776 Colors in the Chat view did not match participants' colors
[FIX] Playing sound does now work again
[FIX] The VCS(version control system) support feature is working again
[FIX] Users could now reset the option to stop an empty session on the host side
[FIX] Remote users now can see, when the local user opens a non-shared file
[FIX] User color square is no longer hidden
[FIX] The host of a session can now invoke permission changes to himself
[FIX] Fixed error display during "add project" rejection
[FIX] Fixed destroying of the Eclipse History for files
[FIX] Prevent execution of unnecessary changes on files with equal content

#### general things ####

Improvements of the network performance

Improved stability during the setup of a session