Psi 0.9
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Date: June 16th, 2003
Author:
Justin Karneges
justin@affinix.com
http://psi.affinix.com/
For installation or compiling instructions, see the INSTALL file.
(On Windows, see install.txt)
This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License. See
the COPYING file for more information.
Notes
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- You need the QSSL plugin to utilize SSL connectivity.
See http://psi.affinix.com/
- Upgrading to 0.9 --
* Import support of config <= 0.8.4 is gone. You must upgrade from
0.8.5 or higher to preserve your configuration.
* Due to the increased bandwidth used by auto-version checks, they
have been disabled in this version by default.
* The self-contact is now only shown if there is more than one
resource logged in at once. If you'd rather it always show, like
in 0.8.7, then there is an option available.
* An XML format is now used for storing SSL certificates. In the
future, Psi will support importing of PEM files. For now, you
will have to create the XML by hand. See certs/README.
* You must use the QSSL v2 plugin to utilize SSL. The older plugin
will not work.
- GnuPG tips --
* Always use the latest version of GnuPG.
* On Windows, use a native build instead of one based on cygwin, and make
sure it is properly installed in the registry.
* Ensure 'gpg' actually works, by testing it from the command-line.
* You must have a public and secret keyring. Psi cannot operate
without them, and they must be there when you start it.
* If you experience fatal GnuPG incompatibilities, you can pass
the --no-gpg option to Psi and gpg will not be used.
* If you have gpg-agent set up, but you don't want Psi to use it, then
you can pass --no-gpg-agent to force the use of Psi's built-in prompt.
Changes
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New in 0.9:
- Jabber Browsing
- OpenPGP integration (via GnuPG) for end-to-end personal security
- Groupchat: invites, private messaging, nick coloring, word highlighting
- Fixed OS-shutdown problem
- Support for GNOME2 trayicon (freedesktop standard)
- Invisibility
- Option to block popups from unlisted contacts
- VCards are now cached locally
- Fixed build issues on Solaris
- Fixed double-transport item bug
- Version checks are now optional
- Gadu-gadu icons
- Lockdown (undocumented, see profiles.cpp source code for details)
- Default chats to no-resource, as per XMPP recommendation
- SSL Certificate dialog
- Improved SSL Certificate verification and certs format (see certs/README)
- Set WM_CLASS's on X11
- Account Registration allows specifying separate host from JID
- New Proxy Profiles system, to share proxy configuration between accounts
- Fixed bug where outgoing messages were logged when history was disabled
- Chat dialog no longer logs redundant presence updates
- Fixed chat dialog scrolling annoyance
- Swap yes/no buttons on some dialogs back to normal
- Fixed clipboard URL-grabbing
- win32: Pasting text into Notepad should have proper linebreaks
- win32: fixed idle bugs
- JIDs that have < or > characters are now escaped in the event dialog
- Chat dialog should now wrap long URLs
- Unhiding a chat dialog should bring it to the current virtual desktop
- Tons of other minor bugfixes
New in 0.8.7:
- Multiple Jabber logins at once
- Much improved Jabber resource handling
- New contact tooltip shows information about all resources logged in
- "Self" contact, so that you can access your other resources
- Groupchat
- Server account unregister capability
- Contact list now reports presence errors
- New auth/ask icons instead of "need authorization" psuedogroup
- Events from hidden contacts cause only those contacts to appear
- Ability to use proxy when registering
- Connecting animation
- New "busy" animation
- Normal message dialog now has JID auto-completion support
- Optional feature to send URLs detected in the clipboard (like Licq)
- Finding messages in history now locates instead of filtering
- "What's This" information available to many dialogs
- bugfix: crash when changing status
- bugfix: proxy port reset to 8080 when modifying account
- bugfix: can't close register dialog
- bugfix: can't ignore SSL warnings during register
- Quite a few other things..
New in 0.8.6:
- Roster sorted on-the-fly instead of delayed (no more "jumping")
- Platform-specific DNS resolution
- Middle-click triggers default action
- Better multi-display support
- Custom auto-status message
- Chat messages containing URLs or Subjects are displayed properly
- No more warning when quitting while connected
- Auto-reconnect
- Send deregistration when deleting a transport
- DND status does not play sounds or do popups
- Numpad-enter now acts like the regular enter key
- Escape hides the roster window
- "Tool window" mode for roster (on win32 this means no taskbar entry)
- Sound previews in the options dialog
- HTTP(S) proxy support
- Your Nickname is displayed in titlebar instead of Jabber ID
- "Last Online @" available for offline contacts (via tooltip)
- Ability to manually specify your JID, in case it doesn't match the host
- Message quoting
- Support for changing password
- Ability to deny subscriptions
- Emoticons
- SSL certificate verification warnings
- Better internal iconset handling (should be no leaks now)
- Uses a plugin called QSSL, instead of OpenSSL directly
- $PSIDATADIR can specify a custom path for PsiData (normally $HOME/.psi)
- Show client version and operating system of contacts (via tooltip)
- Ability to load iconsets in zip format
- Option: alert for chats even if the chat window is open (like ICQ2001)
- Option: start with main window hidden
- Option: don't auto-popup when away
- bugfix: raise roster window on event should not take focus
- bugfix: "Play sounds" option restored properly
- bugfix: URLs with ampersands should now open correctly
- bugfix: crash when trying to connect while already connecting
- bugfix: Windows 95 works again
Description
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Psi is a Jabber client written in C++ using the Qt toolkit. It's the
only Qt Jabber client under active development that I'm aware of, and I
plan for it to be a suitable replacement for people switching from Licq.
Psi started out as an X11 program for unix, but thanks to the portability
of Qt, there are also Windows and MacOS X versions.
The interface is very ICQ-like. Alerts appear in the contact list when
events are received, and things like subscriptions requests appear as
"system messages" (ICQ users know these well). Even "Chats" are
queued in the contact list. Also, chats are "remembered" by default,
so that you don't have to keep a bunch of windows open for each person.
Just close the chat window. If you open it again it will all be there.
Psi is minimal but powerful. There are keybindings for just about
everything, Unicode is supported throughout, and contacts can be even
be managed offline. Security is also a major consideration, and Psi
provides it for both client-to-server (SSL) and client-to-client (GnuPG).
Plans for v1.0:
- File Transfer
- Other misc stuff
- Bugfixes
The list is getting smaller!
How you can help
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Comments
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I like comments, even if they are a simple thanks.
Bug reports
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If you want to help me out, email me a bug report. Be as descriptive
as possible and tell me what exactly you were doing at the time
something went wrong. If possible, send me a stack backtrace.
Wishes
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I can't possibly know what everyone wants, so I appreciate all feature
requests.
Porting
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Psi should be very portable. Please e-mail me first if you want to
port Psi to another platform.
Graphics
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I am no artist. If you think you can do a better job with any of the
Psi graphics, then go right ahead!
Sound
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Same goes for sound. Start mixing!
Programming
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Patches are welcome. External tools would be useful as well, like Licq
conversion utilities (iconsets, message history, etc). Get to work!
Packaging
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Want to make an RPM or something?
Financial
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You can send a paypal gift if you'd like, to justin@affinix.com
Have fun,
-Justin
