LINPOPUP - CHANGES HISTORY ========================== v0.9.4 XX-XXX-98 ----------------- - Binaires as sources RPM (RedHat packages) are now available on http://www.chez.com/littleigloo - Messages are now timestamped, the date of a message is now displayed after the sender and sender's host information. NOTE: because of this the format of the file where messages are kept have changed. So old messages files are not compatible with the new one. - As the messages file format have changed, this is the occasion to move it to a more appropriate location. So messages are now kept in : /var/lib/linpopup/messages.dat (old location was /tmp/linpopup.dat) - Added "Save as" and "Save All" submenus in the "Message" menu. In this way a message or all messages can be saved in a human readable form ( an ASCII text file ). - Added support for GTK+ 1.1.x Linpopup will now compile and run fine with GTK+ 1.1.x series. - The static executable included in the binary distribution is now linked with GTK+ v1.0.5 BTW, is only required to compile the sources and run the dynamic executable GTK+ >=1.0.4 - A Linpopup man page is now available. - Made some changes to the help manu. - Default compiler flags are now : -Wall -O2 -fno-strength-reduce If you want change that set CFLAGS at compile time i.e : make CFLAGS="-O2 -m486" - Updated/corrected the INSTALL file. - Added a -info switch to make linpopup display some system information that may be useful when something goes wrong. - Made it display a rude message when invoked with the -help argument. - Fixed a little bug introduced in v0.9.3 that resulted in a missing new line at the end of a the quoted part of a reply msg. - Linpopup is now a little bit more colored. - New changes made to the Makefile. v0.9.3 20-SEPT-98 ----------------- - MAJOR CHANGE: Message > 1600 bytes are now fully supported. Possibility added to send them in several parts. - MAJOR CHANGE: fixed a bug due to special characters in a HOSTNAME (by example JOHN'S COMPUTER where the ' was responsable of non delivered msg) (thanks to Edward Rudd) By the same occasion change the way to send messages (using now a temp file rather than a string) to avoid this kind of problems regarding the message text. - ABSOLUTELY No more garbage in the statusbar. Hope this is true this time... - Added "Message" menu in the send window with submenus: "Load" and "send". So,it's now possible to load a text file and send it. - Added "Edit" menu in the send window with submenus: "cut", "copy", "paste", "select all", for operations with the clipboard. - Due to Paul Slootman Debian package is now available. - A little bit code Clean-Up initiated by the same Paul. Added some missing #INCLUDE or #DEFINE, updated some comments. - Makefile clean-up/optimization done by Paul. v0.9.2 12-SEPT-98 ----------------- - ABSOLUTELY No more garbage in the statusbar... - Yet more customization ... Added a "Messages" tab in the preferences dialog box. Here you can set the interval at which linpopup will check for new incoming messages. You can even choose to never check for incoming messages. - Changed the default quote character from '>' to '|'. Added a possibility to define a personnal quote character in the preferences dialog box. - Added the possibility to define a personnal reply header (i.e. the sentence "USER on HOST wrote :") - Quoting of a message was extended to the two first lines for more readibility. - First try to guess the deliver adress of a new message. Possibilities added in the preferences dialog box to desactivate this, or to choose to always send new messages to a selected host (particulary usefull if you are only connected to one machine). - Added a "Reset Defaults" button in the preference dialog box. - Minor fix to the minimize function. Linpopup will now iconify itself if launched with the -min argument and if there is no new message. v0.9.1 23-AUG-98 ---------------- - MAJOR CHANGE : Review entirely the way to capture incoming messages. This will avoid some problems when running Linpopup with no root access privileges (like receive indefinitely the same message). And increase by the same occasion the speed of processing new messages. - No more garbage in the main window status-bar. - Added the "Reply" function, with automatic quoting of original message. ( Appears in the message menu and as a new toolbar's icon ). - Added the Edit menu in the main window, with "Select All" "Copy to clipboard" and "Preferences" sub-menus. - On the way of user customization, and the first step is the Toolbar Properties that can now be customized in the preferences window. (Preferences are stored in a .linpopuprc file created in the user home directory) - Modified some icons, principally to make them share the same 256 colors palette. Added a set of 16 colors icons for users with 256 colors depth display. 16 colors icons may be enabled in the new "preferences" dialog box. - Added the "Unreachable Host" error message. - The "Help"->"About Linpopup" dialog box was relooked. - Changed the text of the default message displayed when there is no message. - Changed the label "Send" in the message menu by "New". BTW the function is the same. - Clean-Up some code. - The INSTALL file was ported to correct English by Mark Veinot. After he removed all spelling and grammar errors (not so many in fact), I added some new ones. - Added the THANKS files in the distribution where are listed major contributors, bug reporters, and some others. - Modified in consequence the Makefile, as some little other things in it. - Removed the prebuild binarie from the source distribution. - Updated the CHANGES & TODO files ;) v0.9.0 5-AUG-98 --------------- First beta release. So, no changes.