Gaim 0.77 released

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.

Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.

Gaim runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).

Gaim integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1's system tray, as well as Windows's own system tray. This allows you to work with gaim without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times.

version 0.77 (04/22/2004):
New Features:
* The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
* Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
* Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
* Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory, removed
the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel Atallah)
* Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
* WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
* WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
* Rich-text copy and paste
* Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu
(Christopher O'Brien)
* Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
* The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not
being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
* Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers
for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to
update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION,
GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
* Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
* Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)

Bug Fixes:
* Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
* Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange)
* The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
* MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
* MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash
(Felipe Contreras)
* Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock
up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
* All away messages should now show up in tooltips
* Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
 
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