ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.12

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Gossip 0.12 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gossip/0.12/


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 in Gossip 0.12
=========================

- Copious memory leaks quashed by our (now) FULL time uber hacker,
memory use at an all time low now (Richard).
- Added Peekaboo, an applet to quickly show chat windows and some of the
more popular functions of Instant Messaging (Martyn).
- Remove close button from log window (Richard).
- Show avatars in chat views (Richard, Martyn).
- Make sure we set our own presence in chatrooms, not just on the
roster (Martyn).
- Use the GNOME throbber to show the user when we are connecting (Martyn).
- Added two new themes, Simple and Clear (Martyn, Richard).


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

- Fixed #313177, Use GNOME Network Manager to know about connection
state and connect/disconnect accordingly (Martyn).
- Fixed #339333, Update the Galago support to work with the new 0.5.x
API, (patch by Brian Pepple).
- Fixed #344637, Popup presence chooser menu on mouse down (Richard).
- Fixed #345000, Don't insert a null group name in the groups list 
(Richard).
- Fixed #306369, Case fold Jabber IDs (Richard).
- Fixed #337471, Don't insert tab in private chats when hitting Tab
(Richard).
- Fixed #345326, Show a tooltip for the notification area icon
(Martyn).
- Fixed #345465, Don't call Network Manager DBus functions without
DBus support (Martyn).
- Fixed #345492, Updated the help documentation, (patch by Brian
Pepple, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni).
- Fixed #319713, Private chats started from group chats show the wrong
contact name (Richard).
- Fixed #343687, Don't allow joining group chats already open by
double clicking on the chat room in the join window (Martyn).
- Fixed #345657, Initialise the errors hash table in gossip_app_init()
so we don't crash trying to use it (Martyn).
- Fixed #345636, Contact list geometry is not always saved (Richard).
- Fixed #346298, Don't log empty messages (Mikael).
- Fixed #346294, Connect or Disconnect when double clicking on an
account in the accounts dialog (Mikael).
- Fixed #344294, Chat colors are not theme friendly (Martyn, Richard).
- Fixed #158440, Don't start multiple instances of Gossip (Martyn).
- Fixed #346496, Crash on PPC for non-ASCII URLs (Richard).


Updated Translations
====================

Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
Hendrik Richter (de)
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
Luca Marturana (it)
Jordi Mallach (ca)
Quentin Delance (fr)
Richard Hult, Daniel Nylander (sv)
Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)


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

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

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05 July 2006
Gossip Team