Konversation 1.2-alpha2 has been released!

May 26, 2009

After just under a week’s worth of adding back some missing functionality, polishing the interface and, of course, of fixing bugs, we’ve decided to bring you Konversation 1.2-alpha2. While there were no major defects discovered in alpha1, this one should yield an overall more refined user experience, and brings us another good step closer to our first stable release for KDE 4.

Changes from 1.2-alpha1 to 1.2-alpha2:

• Fixed nicknames in action messages using the message text color when nick coloring is disabled rather than the correct action text color as the rest of the message.
• Added back the context menus for nicknames and channel links in the chat view.
• Fixed the topic/info area in channels, queries and DCC chats, the nickname list in channels and the listview variant of the tab bar not keeping their sizes when the window is resized.
• Added missing actions (“Reconnect”, “Disconnect”, “Join channel …”) back to the context menu for server status tabs.
• Improved the placement of the “Join on connect” channel tab context menu item (back under “Enable Notifications” as in v1.1).
• Added the use of some of the new irc-* icons found in recent updates to the Oxygen icon theme.
• Fixed crash when joining a channel after having been blocked from getting the topic for the channel.
• Made the initial size of the “Edit Network” dialog more reasonable.
• Improved vertical size of and text alignment inside the input line.
• Added back support for drag and drop reordering of views to the listview version of the tab bar.
• Added back support for “surfing” in the listview version of the tab bar by pressing and holding the left mouse button on a view and moving the mouse up and down in the list view.
• Fixed mouse handling for close buttons in the listview version of the tab bar.
• Added back support for showing tooltips for truncated view items in the listview version of the tab bar.
• Fixed crash when receiving lines terminated by LFCRLF from buggy IRC servers (such as the shroudBNC IRC proxy when it relays a private message received while no user was connected to it).
• Worked around a Qt bug that has a text selection in the chat view that includes the last character in the view grow to include the new text when new text is appended to the view.
• Sound notifications for highlights now reuse a single Phonon MediaObject by enqueuing notification sounds rather than instanciate a new one for every notification, improving resource efficiency and hopefully taking care of some high CPU usage reports that seemed to be linked to Konversation’s Phonon usage.
• Fixed the enabling/disabling of the “Find Previous” action.
• Fixed several bugs in the Server List dialog (sort indicator disappearing while dragging items, stray pixel in the top-left corner of the listview, hover decoration while dragging not always showing).
• Improved handling in the Identity editor dialog: When Konversation complains about one or more required fields not being filled in, the dialog will now put focus on the field when it opens.
• Fixed the ‘Self’ IP field of the DCC transfer details panel not showing a value when on the receiving end of a DCC file transfer.
• Handle DCC REJECTs. A DCC SEND is now automatically aborted when the partner rejects it.
• Fixed a bug causing the ordering of views to be partially reversed when switching from the listview version of the tab bar to the regular tab bar.
• Improved consistency of the context menu for links between the topic area and the chat view.
• Fixed repeated searches for the same search pattern (i.e. “Find Next”) sometimes not working reliably with the chat view search bar.
• Minor code cleanups and performance improvements.