Ubuntu-LB Pidgin 2.5.0 With MSNP15 Is Out
Jocelyn
jhabib at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 09:47:02 BST 2008
so we wait i am not in a hurry , i stopped using msn long time a go :D
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Jocelyn,
> Installing debian packages from getdeb.net aren't reliable and risky.
> Those packages are greated by users, could have a lot of failures that could
> lead to system crash. I once had experienced that. So I don't recommend it.
> It's better to build from source then to get it from that site or just wait
> the official ubuntu package.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dani
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Jocelyn <jhabib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.getdeb.net
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> The problem was that Pidgin developers were waiting for Debian package to
>>> be released, but I checked our Intrepid respiratory and found the newest
>>> Pidgin there. I messaged Pidgin developers and they built the package. It's
>>> in launchpad as I've already noted. Enjoy.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Dani
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Bassem JARKAS <jarkas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you Dani for the great news, but unfortunately there is no package
>>>> build for ubuntu till now.
>>>> So if you found it, please tell us.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>> Congratulations to all Pidgin users. Finally the MSN protocol support
>>>>> was updated and finally officially released. Here are couple of changes for
>>>>> this released that I got from Pidgin's change log:
>>>>>
>>>>> - *libpurple*
>>>>> - Ability to create custom smileys (currently only the MSN
>>>>> protocol utilizes the feature). (Thanks to Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil,
>>>>> Marcus Lundblad, Jorge Villaseñor and other contributors)
>>>>> - Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow
>>>>> packagers to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set,
>>>>> we don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the libpurple
>>>>> package depend on the CA certificates.
>>>>> - Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin. (Thanks to
>>>>> Lou Cipher)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *XMPP*
>>>>> - Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the
>>>>> client to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the
>>>>> server.
>>>>> - Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state
>>>>> where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in an endless
>>>>> loop.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *IRC*
>>>>> - /ctcp command (Vladislav Guberinić)
>>>>> - Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on
>>>>> accounts which are configured to use some other encoding.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *MSN*
>>>>> - Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade,
>>>>> Jorge Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg and
>>>>> others)
>>>>> - Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as
>>>>> status messages.
>>>>> - Offline IM is now supported.
>>>>> - Aliasing is now supported server-side.
>>>>> - Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be
>>>>> distinguished.
>>>>> - Update smiley set for non-faces.
>>>>> - Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone offline
>>>>> no longer crashes.
>>>>> - Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new
>>>>> window.
>>>>> - Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers
>>>>> block a message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *Pidgin*
>>>>> - Custom buddy icons can now be added to and removed from buddy
>>>>> list entries via the buddy list entry right-click menu.
>>>>> - Resize large incoming custom smileys to a maximum of 96px on
>>>>> either side.
>>>>> - Offer to add new buddies into the same contact as existing
>>>>> buddies in the same group if the alias given is the same.
>>>>> - Minor smiley style update.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *General*
>>>>> - Group and Chat buddy list entries can now be given custom
>>>>> buddy icons.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *Finch*
>>>>> - Added "Invite..." menu to chats.
>>>>> - Added "View All Logs" menu in the buddylist to display a list
>>>>> of all IM logs.
>>>>> - Added '/msgcolor' command to change colors of different
>>>>> classes of messages in a conversation. See '/help msgcolor' for details.
>>>>> - Added tab-completion for commands in conversation windows.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - *Windows-specific changes*
>>>>> - Don't install the GSSAPI SASL plugin on NT4 to avoid an error
>>>>> popup.
>>>>> - Use the Kerberos for Windows libraries installed on the system
>>>>> (if present) instead of including enough to load the plugin (Kfw still
>>>>> needed to be installed for it to actually work before this change).
>>>>> - Upgrade to Perl 5.10 (System Perl runtime must be upgraded for
>>>>> Perl plugins to continue to work).
>>>>> - Upgrade SILC to use the 1.1.7 toolkit
>>>>>
>>>>> You could all download the source package and compile it by yourself OR
>>>>> you could add PPA to your "sources.list" file and get directly the
>>>>> officially Ubuntu made package provided by Pidgin Developers. Please check
>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Epidgin-developers/+archive>for what you should add in your "sources.list", but make sure that you'd
>>>>> check for the latest package version listed there in the list, because it
>>>>> wasn't been added when I last time checked. But it should probably be in
>>>>> couple of hours ready, "Hopefully".
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Dani
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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