[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: Empathy 0.9

[Xavier Claessens]

Empathy 0.9 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.9/

58ae0939f44d91f9887f235ee1bc3e52  empathy-0.9.tar.gz
74c7255a56ffa8e37147a1a0cfe40565  empathy-0.9.tar.bz2


What is it?
===========
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's
Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit
desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
embeded into any GNOME application.

Where can I find out more?
==========================
You can visit the project web site:
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy

What's New?
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 - Initial room list support. It doesn't work yet but most of the code
is ready.
 - Tell the user when a message can't be sent.
 - Set all contacts from salut protocol to the "Local Network" group.
 - Fix NetworkManager support.
 - Iconify main window to the status icon like in rhythmbox.
 - Show avatars in chatrooms.
 - Fix avatar not being requested when empathy starts.
 - Remove unused nickname entry and use a GtkTable for room information.
 - Set a window title and fix alignment of widgets for contact related
dialogs
   (add, edit/view info).
 - Adding initial API documentation using gtk-doc.
 - Auto-accept to publish presence to contacts that are in our subscribe
list.
   When accepting a pending contact add it to publish and subscribe
list.
 - Filter incoming text channels and make status icon flash when there
we
   receive a new message. Dispatch the channel only when we get a
message and
   the user click on the icon.
 - Install libempathy and libempathy-gtk and make their API public. The
API is
   NOT STABLE AT ALL !!!


Bugs Fixed:
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- Fixed #451564, crash in Empathy Instant Messenger: Nothing -- having
open c... (Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #454277, crash in Empathy Instant Messenger: Started empathy and
was ... (Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #443162, MSN account settings need a better UI (Cosimo Cecchi)
- Fixed #444490, Gossip-->Empathy conversion (Mario Danic, Xavier
Claessens)
- Fixed #452536, Provide a nice API to launch EmpathyLogManager (Xavier
Claessens)
- Fixed #455240, add EMPATHY_LOGFILE env variable (Guillaume Desmottes)
- Fixed #457992, Rounded avatars (Raphael Slinckx)
- Fixed #458106, Iconify nicely to the status icon (Jaap A. Haitsma)

Translations:
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- Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
- Updated pl: Tomasz Dominikowski
- Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez
- Updated ja: Takeshi AIHANA

Manual Translations:
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None


25 July 2007
Empathy team