ANNOUNCE: GnomeMeeting 0.98 aka the "Buddha Matreya release"

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Application
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GnomeMeeting 0.98 aka the "Buddha Matreya release"

Description
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GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compatible videoconferencing and VoIP/IP telephony
application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users
with H.323 hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting). It supports
all modern videoconferencing features, such as registering to an ILS
directory, gatekeeper support, making multi-user conference calls using an
external MCU, using modern Quicknet telephony cards, and making PC-to-phone
calls. 

Enhancements
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* Call hold support: calls can be hold and retrieved later,
* Call transfer support: any running call to another user,
* New h323 URL support: (RFC3508), of course callto URLs are still
supported
* URL support in call forwarding (h323: and callto:) for incoming calls,
* Possibility to specify the UDP ports used when registering to
gatekeepers
* Improved disconnection messages at call end,
* Improved gatekeeper registration error messages
* Full IPv6 support (thanks to Sébastion Josset),
* Support for the GNU Gatekeeper NAT penetration technique permits users to
penetrate NAT as long as they register to a public and non-natted GNU GK
(thanks to Chih-Weih Huang)

General enhancements include: 

* Redesigned addressbook with new menus and drag-and-drop, now also
supports special chars in group names
* Speed dials support: you can associate any number shortcut to callto: and
h323: URLs for your contacts (e.g.: if speed dial 1 is h323:foo.net,
dialing 1# will dial h323:foo.net)
* Improved ILS browser
* Improved ILS server, faster and more reliable (thanks to Paul)
* Experimental AVC and DC Firewire support (thanks to Georgi Georgiev and
Bob Mroczka)
* New calls history: given, unanswered and received calls are now listed in
the calls history, users can be called back or drag-and-dropped into one of
the addressbook's groups
* Improved preferences dialog with a better organization of the options
* Most dialogs are now HIG compliant
* New option to automatically clear the text chat
* Debug output contains timestamps and gets logged
* Improved Full Screen support
* New smileys
* New icons (thanks to Jakub Steiner)
* Many internal code changes to prepare GnomeMeeting to 1.00

Quicknet enhancements: 

* Possibility to start a call immediately after '#' is pressed,
* Possibility to hold a call with '*1' and to transfer it with '*2'

Fully updated translations: 

* zh_TW by Chung-Yen Chang
* sv.po by Christian Rose
* nl.po by Huib Kleinhout
* it.po by Alessio Dessi
* fr.po by Fabrice Alphonso
* de.po by Stefan Brüns
* cs.po by Miloslav Trmac

GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomemeeting