Changeset 6527 for trunk/licq

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09/15/08 00:57:26 (3 months ago)
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Added news for 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 to changelog.

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    11Change log for Licq. 
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     3New in 1.3.6 
     4o Various bugs in both Licq and plugins that caused crashes have been fixed.  
     5o Prevent DoS attack by adding limit to number of incoming connections accepted.  
     6o Properly handle backslashes in auto responses.  
     7o ICQ: Updated client id sent to server to enable login after 2008-07-01.  
     8o ICQ: Use MD5 based authentication for login instead of sending plain text password.  
     9o ICQ: Support for downloading contact pictures from server.  
     10o MSN: Fixed a problem with contact pictures sometimes failing to download.  
     11o Plugin API: Functions using Uin parameter have been deprecated.  
     12o Plugin API: Improved group handling.  
     13o Qt/KDE: Qt-Gui ported to Qt4, more info below.  
     14o Qt/KDE: Show contact registration date in user info dialog.  
     15o Qt/KDE: GUI will now update if group data changes.  
     16o Qt/KDE: Startup group setting moved from daemon to GUI.  
     17o Qt/KDE: Automatically switch message dialog to text message after sending file, contact, url, etc.  
     18o Qt/KDE: Birthday icon was not removed at the end of the day.  
     19o Qt/KDE: Main window position/size is no saved on exit.  
     20o Qt/KDE: User info can be opened from authorization request window.  
     21o Qt/KDE: ICQ server port would be reset to default when opening options dialog.  
     22o Qt/KDE: Establishing a secure connection now unchecks "Send through server".  
     23o Qt/KDE: User info dialog now includes year in all dates. 
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     25Note: As of 1.3.6, Licq requires Boost libraries to build. Boost is also 
     26   required when building any plugin as it is used in the header files. 
     27 
     28Licq 1.3.6 includes the Qt4-Gui with is a new version of the Qt-Gui plugin. 
     29The following major changes can be seen in Qt4-Gui compared to Qt-Gui: 
     30o New tray icon handling that will work on any desktop with a standard tray area. 
     31o Buttons for most dialogs are ordered to match the local environment. 
     32o Message dialog has new layout which uses less space for the controls.  
     33o Settings dialog pages has been reorganized with fewer options per page for easier navigation.  
     34o User info dialog has been extended to also include pages with user settings.  
     35o Settings dialog and user info dialog now uses a navigation-tree pane instead of tabs.  
     36o A completely new history dialog with easier navigation and search functionality.  
     37o Message dialog remember its position and size (tabbed mode only).  
     38o Option to display user image in message dialog.  
     39o Contact list shows contacts awaiting authorization in different colour.  
     40 
     41Note: The Qt4-Gui requires cmake to build it, see plugin/qt4-gui/doc/INSTALL 
     42   for further information.  
     43 
     44 
     45New in 1.3.5 
     46o Save the "Send through server" option to disk.  
     47o Fixed bugs that caused Licq to leak memory.  
     48o Fixed a bug where Licq would crash on authorization requests from new users.  
     49o Added code (disabled by default) to help find locking issues that could cause Licq to hang and fixed the bugs that were discovered.  
     50o Made Licq buildable with GCC 4.3.  
     51o Updated autotools and friends.  
     52o Use gdb if it's installed to generate a better backtrace if Licq crashes.  
     53o Display a dialog informing the user how to report the bug in case Licq crashes.  
     54o ICQ: Fixed sending capabilities.  
     55o ICQ: Fixed setting security settings (Require authorization, Show web presence).  
     56o Qt/KDE: New emoticons theme FeltTip4.  
     57o Qt/KDE: New "Date format" option for customizing date and time in message and history windows.  
     58o Qt/KDE: The local time of contacts can be displayed in contact list and popup information.  
     59o Qt/KDE: Made the history layout configurable.  
     60o Qt/KDE: New option to use double return instead of Ctrl+Return for sending and in input dialogs.  
     61o Qt/KDE: Skins can now set a separate background color for group headings in the contact list (parameter colors.groupBack).  
     62o Qt/KDE: Tabs in chatdialog can be closed by middle clicking on them.  
     63o Qt/KDE: Removed all Qt2 support.  
     64o Qt/KDE: Open links in a new tab when using Opera.  
     65o Qt/KDE: Made the standard group names translatable.  
     66o Qt/KDE: Added %M modifier to print number of pending messages (if any).  
     67o Qt/KDE: Popup information shows if contact is not authorized yet.  
     68o Qt/KDE: Floaties are now saved properly for non-ICQ contacts. 
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    371New in 1.3.4