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4.4 KiB
107 lines
4.4 KiB
5 years ago
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Have fun using this all-improved plugin and feel free to contribute patches
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and other improvements to our mailing list! Although we all like to boast
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about our great work, we're sure there are still bugs remaining, which is
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why we don't call this release 1.0, but only 0.5.
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Nevertheless, we feel this new MSN plugin is an enormous step forward from
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the last 0.4.1 release and we recommend anyone to try out this all-improved
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plugin. Please read the release notes first before reporting bugs, but please
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do report anything not listed there!
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Thanks for your interest in Kopete!
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October 2002, the Kopete team <kopete-devel@kde.org>
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CHANGES IN THE MSN PLUGIN SINCE KOPETE 0.4.1
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- Ported the plugin to the new MetaContact API, allowing a locally cached
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copy of the contact list to be always available (even when offline) and
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to combine your MSN contacts with other messaging systems in one entry
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in the contact list.
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- Added additional online states ('be right back', 'out to lunch', 'busy',
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'invisible') and the possibility to connect directly with a particular
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status (especially useful with 'invisible')
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- Fix multi-user chat now the API finally supports it properly
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- Fix a grave bug in Kopete 0.4.1 where Kopete would popup the 'new user'
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dialog for every user in your block list, asking whether you want to
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allow or block the user, often crashing Kopete completely
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- Fix support for Unicode messages
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- Fix the 'unhandled error 219' problem that caused Kopete to disconnect
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unexpectedly for some people
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- Added possibility to talk with users who aren't in the contact list
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- Incoming filetransfers
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- As usual, several other bugfixes
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CHANGES IN THE MSN PLUGIN SINCE KOPETE 0.4
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- Added block/unblock user
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- Don't show contacts from the allow list if they are not also in the
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friend list (like deleted contacts). Small problem: there already was
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a need to have a gui for manipulating blocked/allowed contacts, with
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this change this is even a bit more urgent...
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- Hopefully fix a problem with an empty reverse list on a fresh MSN account.
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can't test, because by the time the recompile was done the reverse list
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was no longer empty...
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- Fix a problem with MSN users no longer receiving messages. Apparently
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Microsoft changed the server so messages without an explicit font name are
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no longer passed on.
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- Fixed UTF8 handling not really being UTF8. MSN should work fine now with
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all unicode characters
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- Moved the plugin to use KGenericFactory as preparation for more KDE-style
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plugin handling (as opposed to the current custom code)
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- Fixed crash when disconnecting while an earlier connect was still running
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- Made the connect code asynchronous, so connecting doesn't hang kopete
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while processing
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- Fixed minor memory leak in the connect code
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CHANGES IN THE MSN PLUGIN SINCE KOPETE 0.3
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Many things changed since 0.3. I won't mention them all, because so much of
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the internal code changed that the individual commits often fix more than I
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was even aware of at that time. Below are the bigger changes and fixes:
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- Ported the plugin to the new KopeteMessageManager. This move unifies the
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handling of various resources like chat windows, balloons, system tray
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flashing, and more. In Kopete 0.3 this was the exclusive domain of the
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ICQ plugin, in this release all plugins except IRC already use the shared
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code.
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- Rewrote almost all of the internal protocol handling, fixing an awful lot
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of bugs during the process. The main goal was to make the code more
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maintainable and extensible, but the gratuitous bug fixes are of course
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much more useful for most people. The most important fix of all is a
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grave bug that caused the plugin to read a fixed-size 1kb buffer in Kopete
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0.3 without checking for additional data, often causing the plugin to
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seemingly 'hang'.
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- Added the ability to change the display name while connected. This can
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currently only be done from the context menu. The option in the
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preferences never worked, and still does not do what you'd expect it to
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do. Sorry :)
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- Added much more useful debug code for developers, testers and other
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interested people. It is also a lot *more* debug output, so if you're
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scared of console output, better not start Kopete from it...
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- All those tiny bugfixes of which I don't even know whether they fix
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regressions introduced during the development of version 0.4, or whether
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they fix long-standing bugs.
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