ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.10

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Gossip 0.10 is now available for download from:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gossip/0.10/

MD5Sum:
57a3a1a84ca4451868df2f151bae50aa  gossip-0.10.tar.bz2
05df8ab6e49a096a8d59dcaf96d69fc1  gossip-0.10.tar.gz


What is Gossip
==============

Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use 
interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly way to 
keep in touch with their friends.


What's New
==========

- Added support for changing topics in group chat (Martyn).
- Added support incoming message sound if your name is used in group
chat (Martyn).
- Reworked the chat code in places and added the beginnings of a theme
engine (Richard).
- Reworked the group chat join code (Martyn).
- Reworked the group chat configuration to use an XML file (Martyn).
- Reworked the status preset code (Richard).
- Reworked the status preset configuration to use an XML file (Martyn,
Richard).
- Added *VERY* basic support for file transfer (this means you can
respond to incoming requests, but you can not accept or initiate them)
(Martyn).
- Added Help->Contents (Brian Pepple and Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Added new DBus API for post-net-up and pre-net-down so things can
clean up (Mikael).
- Use the Gnome smiley theme so there are now more emote icons that can
be used in chat (Martyn):
	:*  = Kiss
	:s  = Confused
	:@  = Angry
	*|  = Sorry
	*)  = Look Away
	:x  = Oooh
	*s  = Blush
	8D  = Cool Big Smile
	<)  = Angel
	@)  = Boss
	#)  = Monkey
	O)  = Silly
	+o( = Sick

- Added "composing" support back into Gossip (Martyn).
- Added "auto_connect" feature for accounts when starting Gossip
(Martyn).
- Clean up unused ellipsize and tree model filter code borrowed from
- libegg which is now in GTK+ (Richard).

Bugs Fixed
==========

For a list of all the bugs fixed: http://tinyurl.com/c3c22

- #331229, Avoid critical warning when getting presence information
about offline contacts (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- #331412, Use "Remove" and "Cancel instead of "Yes" and "No" when
removing a contact (Wouter Bolsterlee).
- #331228, GTK+ gtk_widget_hide() warning causing a crash (Diego
González).
- #330830, Make sure the chat rooms window clears widget values when
closed (since it is hidden) (Paul Van Tilburg).
- #330828, Make sure the nickname for chat rooms is honoured (Paul Van
Tilburg).
- #330916, Missing files in POTFILES.in (Brian Pepple).
- #306321, Make sure errors returned from failed registration attempts
are more user friendly rather than esoteric (Joe Shaw).
- #131290, Fixed nickname used in chat to be the full name from the
users vcard, which is also now set when registering new accounts (Michal
Janeczek).
- #321569, Possibility to set server separately from jabber id in the
start up wizard (Brian Pepple).
- #325841, Support automatically joining chat rooms when connecting to
the server (Martyn, Ross Burton).
- #325740, Fixed crasher when joining the same group chat for the 2nd
time (Martyn).
- #325378, Updated help documentation to reflect the latest user
interface changes (Brian Pepple).
- #308041, Made the show/hide contact list configurable from the main
menu not just the notification area (Radomir Dopieralski).
- #321801, Don't send "composing" notification from every account, only
from the account that has that contact (Ross Burton).
- #119971, Support inviting people to group chat rooms (Mikael
Hallendal).
- #325258, Make sure the default vcard is looked up when showing the
Personal Information dialog (Brian Pepple).
- #141225, Added status and resource information to the Contact
Information dialog (jon tgpsolutions com).
- #322775, Reworked the Chat->New Message dialog (Martyn, Brian Pepple).
- #323099, Made name and group configurable on new subscriptions (Maciej
Katafiasz).
- #305103, Translation bugs in jabber transport modules (Gabor
Kelemen). 
- #322712, Build issues with DBus and Galago (Brian Pepple).
- #321538, Windows and dialogs have transients to positioned children
over their parents (Christian Neumair, Martyn).
- #316925, Added support for Galago (Ross Burton).
- #314848, Disable sound when showing/hiding offline contacts (Martyn).
- #316172, Stop sending blank messages with "composing" information
(Ross Burton).
- #317107, Fixed GossipAccountButton implementation (Martyn, Tommi
Komulainen).
- #135472, Added shortcut (Escape) to hide main window (Edd Dumbill).
- #316340, Make sure newly opened chat windows get focus (Keywan Najafi
Tonekaboni).
- #316917, Added "presence-changed" signal to the session for Galago
(Ross Burton).
- #316625, Resolved build issues with pkg-config (Tommi Komulainen).
- #316621, Make the offline GossipAccountButton icon clearer (Tommi
Komulainen).
- #315181, Moved DBus initiation out of libgossip (Brian Pepple).
- #153110, Resolved group chat text wrapping issues (Sven Salzwedel).
- #165404, Support registering using SSL (Martyn, Mikael,
skadz mindstorm com).
- #165519, Support configuring multiple accounts (Martyn).
- #314140, Resolved "Login" grammar error (Adam Weinberger).
- #155135, Added confirmation dialog when trying to quit with unread
messages, subscriptions, etc (Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- #142192, Make dragging contacts into chat windows highlight the target
to make things clearer and only drop when the button is released (Sjoerd
Simons).
- #151859, Stop the new message icon flashing on a contact when dragging
them to a chat window (Paul van Tilburg).
- #160216, Make the add contact druid continue when pressing Next
(bram luon net).
- #141787, Support adding contacts from a chat window (Brad Taylor).
- #156285, Added completion to the status preset dialogs (Martyn).
- #313486, Stop crash when joining a group chat and cancelling it
immediately after (Brian Pepple).


Translations
============

- Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)
- Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)
- Christian Rose (sv)
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)
- Jaydeep Bhusal (ne)
- Pawan Chitrakar (ne)
- Richard Hult (sv)
- Žygimantas Beručka (lt)


More information:
=================

The Gossip project page:
http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gossip

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18 February 2006
Gossip Team