Ten questions with Julian Missig of the Gabber project

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Author: JT Smith

John Gowin of LinuxOrbit writes Linux Orbit: You said in an earlier email that a new version of Gabber would be available shortly. What are some of the new features?
Julian Missig: Gabber 0.8.2pre2 was released to go into the GNOME 1.4 Beta 2 Fifth Toe release. We’re working our way towards 0.8.2, and so far we’ve:

  • fixed a problem concerning getting information for users not on the Jabber roster
  • added many additional keyboard accelerators
  • reorganized almost all of the source code, cleaning up the style to bemore consistent
  • updated the UTF-8 support from GAL, which fixes some large bugs
  • fixed the display of roster groups so that Gabber no remembers which were open and which were closed
  • added support for automatically changing status to ‘away’ after being idle
  • added support for the jabber:iq:last extension, which allows you to see how long someone has been idle or when they last logged out
  • fixed the quoting in normal messages to be more eMail-like

and I’m currently working on having preset status messages, we’ll see how that goes. I also just got a patch which adds support for right-clicking URLs in normal messages. There will most likely be even more changes before 0.8.2 is finally released.

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