Version 0.29 Release Notes

0.29.b

- Still no localizations other than English.

Application
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- Added Connect All, Disconnect All and Service connections to the Services
  menus (thanks Marc)
- Added code contributed by others for buddy list control (hitting enter on
  the list now opens a new window, etc.)
- Removed the old .snd sound files and replaced them with smaller, nicer mp3
  files
- Smileys are no longer placed in the middle of strings.
- Service-specific smiley parsing and menus.
- The Fire-doesn't-save-my-buddies issue has been fixed.
- Profile panel will open when CustomIdentify has not been set
- GPG support for sending and receiving signed and encrypted instant messages.
- Buddy Editor is better laid out.
- Customizable chat window colors.
- You can show buddy log on/off in chat windows.
- The checkboxes (and the huge chat list button) in the toolbar are now
  regular toolbar items.
- Toggle Chat List and Mute now work when they're in the toolbar overflow menu.

firetalk

- Support for DCC.  (Just the backend -- it's not tied into the gui yet.)
- Lots of little bug fixes, including the duplicate name issue.

Services
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YAHOO

- You can now get info on yahoo users


irc

- Support for irc passwords for registered nicks.
- Return and Enter can be configured to send actions instead of messages.
- Private chat actions work now.
- Doesn't show everybody entering the room when you're the one who entered.


ICQ

- Preferences are now remembered correctly.

MSN

- Fire will now display "Someone is typing" notifications.
- Should now notice when a buddy's status goes back to normal.

0.29.a

Source Code
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NOTE: Before you can build Fire from this source, you will need to copy
      bastring.h from the ICQ directory to the directory:
      /usr/include/gcc/darwin/2.95.2/g++ directory.

Services
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AIM

- Fire now uses ISOLatin1 encoding for strings sent in AIM (and ICQ if so
  desired).  This should enable non-English text characters (åé, etc.) in AIM.
- Newlines are stripped from the end of incoming messsages.  This should
  improve the multi-line spacing when you're talking with the OS X AOL AIM
  client.

irc

- Supports limited text markup.
- Channel ops are red instead of bold.
- Fire now notices +/- voice.
- People changing nicks shouldn't cause random windows to pop up anymore.
- Context menus for user icons.

ICQ

- Completely new ICQ stack based off of libicq2000.  I am blatantly stealing
  the code from Icy Juice and modifying it for my own purposes.  Ahh the
  beauty of the GPL.
- Buddy info works again.
- Messages work again.
- Authorization works again.
- Offline messages work again.

Application
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- The chat windows now use an NSToolbar (configurable) for all the buttons,
  thereby making the windows a lot smaller.
- The preferences have been completely redone
- URLs are now hyperlinks in the chat window

- Automatic, inline foreign language translation.  Be aware of the following
  issues:
  - The translation is not perfect.
  - The translation is not perfect.  (This is not an accidentally repeated
    line.)
  - The translation is not perfect, but it should be close enough to get
    the point across.
  
- If you have return set up as a "send" key, Sh-Return will not send the IM
  and instead will insert a carriage-return.
- If you press "Esc" while you are typing an IM, the IM will clear itself out.
  (Thanks to Jason Townsend for these)
- Improved sizing of the online buddies dot.
- The dot can now be hidden if no buddies are online.
- New notification windows
  (Thanks to Jonathan McGuire for these)
- Smiley placement popup menu for the toolbar.
- In the Buddy Editor, the Groups popup is now sorted.  This should make
  "** Default Group **" the default group.  (Or if you're editing a current
  buddy, whatever group they're in.
- Raphael Ho added in the service icon as part of the user's title bar.
- Fire's application support files are now located in
  ~/Library/Application Support/Fire
  - The first time Fire launches, it will check for ~/Library/Fire.  If it
    is found, Fire will try to move that folder to
    ~/Library/Application Support/Fire.  If the move is successful, you
    won't see anything.  Fire will only notify you if the move fails.  If
    it fails, check for the before and after locations and let me know what
    you have -- colter@mac.com.  This also means that you will NOT be able
    to go back to an older version of Fire once you upgrade without
    moving the files back by hand.
- Fire will use the IM account name instead of your OS X account name in
  chat windows
- You can IM any user, not just those on your buddy list (Services->IM to
  Other)
- Mail alerts can now take you to the mail site for that service.
  - Strange behavior, let me know -- colter@mac.com
- You can now do private conversations with chat users by double clicking on
  their chat windows.
- Fire now has an integrated help file (English only)
- Fixed the no-sound-by-default bug.
- Completely new preference panels
- Group chats have user icons