Konversation 1.2.2 has been released!

February 12, 2010

Konversation 1.2.2 contains a number of new features, such as support for passive DCC chat and amarok:// URLs, and a large amount of user interface improvements to various tabs (e.g. Watched Nicknames Online and the URL Catcher) and dialogs (e.g. Join Channel). When used with KDE SC 4.4 it supports the new system tray icon API. A sizable list of bug fixes round things out; of particular note is a change addressing the high CPU usage some users have experienced with Qt 4.6.

Changes from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2:

• Added support for passive DCC chat.
• Made it possible to accept/reject DCC chats like DCC file transfers.
• Added an option to auto-accept DCC chats (previously it would always auto-accept).
• Added a confirmation dialog for closing DCC chats, consistent with other conversation tabs.
• Improved the sanity-checking code for the validity of ports used in DCC operations.
• Fixed connection attempts possibly stalling when there is a problem with executing the associated identity’s pre-shell command (provided it has one set at all), and Konversation crashing when it is quit while a connection attempt is stuck on trying to execute the preshell command.
• Fixed /setkey, /delkey and /showkey treating their target arguments (i.e. a channel or a query) case-sensitive.
• Fixed the encryption key for a query getting lost if the other end changes their nickname.
• Added support for KStatusNotifierItem, the new system tray API in KDE.
• Fixed a bug causing multiple auto-replacements in a single message not to work.
• Made it possible to include syntax normally used to refer to a subgroup of the matching pattern as normal text in the replacement pattern of a regular expression auto-replace, by escaping it like this: %%1.
• Fixed a bug causing an empty MODE message to be sent to the server preceding the correct one when using /op, /deop and the like.
• Fixed a bug causing as many mode chars as target nicknames given to commands like /op, /deop etc. to be sent as part of every single resultant MODE messages sent to the server, despite one MODE message being generated for every group of three target nicknames. I.e. “/op foo foo foo foo” would result in “MODE +oooo foo foo foo” and “MODE +oooo foo”, when it should only be “+ooo” and “+o”, respectively.
• Added support for amarok:// URLs in chat text views and channel topics.
• Fixed a bug causing Konversation to treat “Page Up” and “Page Down” key events with any modifier (e.g. Ctrl) the same as without any modifier, making such combinations unavailable as shortcuts for other actions.
• Fixed a bug causing the status bar to remain stuck displaying the description of a menu action if subsequently hovering other actions without a description set.
• The Watched Nicknames Online, URL Catcher and Channel List tabs now use a toolbar at the top rather than a row of buttons at the bottom for their various actions, consistent with the Log Viewer and the (redesigned for 1.2) DCC Status tabs. Aside from a nicer UI this has the side benefit of reducing the minimum window width with any of these tabs open.
• Further work on reducing the use of the qt3support/kde3support libraries throughout the codebase.
• The design of the search bar has been made more consistent with the search bars found in other KDE applications (e.g. Konqueror, Konsole and KWrite).
• Added a “–noautoconnect” command line argument to disable auto-connecting to any IRC networks on application startup.
• The invite dialog now has a drop-down offering the options “Always ask”, “Always join” and “Always ignore” for future default behavior, rather than just a “Don’t ask again” checkbox that wasn’t sufficient to cover all scenarios.
• The “Hide Nicklist” action has been renamed “Show Nicklist” to comply with the KDE 4 HIG.
• URLs are no longer decoded before being passed to the web browser, fixing the opening of some links from the chat text view.
• Fixed a bug causing the application to crash when pressing the left or right arrow keys after selecting an active file transfer in the DCC Status tab’s transfer list when using Qt 4.6.
• Improved performance of the DCC Status tab’s transfer list.
• It’s now possible to add nicknames to the Watched Nicknames Online list, as well as remove them, right from the tab rather than having to go to the config dialog.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the “Choose Association” KDE address book integration action to create a new contact in the address book.
• It’s now possible to add a nickname to the watch list of all networks in the Watched Nicknames Online tab at once.
• Fixed a bug causing the opening of all bookmarks in a bookmark folder at once not to work.
• The ban list interface has seen a facelift. The new way of working with the list makes it very easy to use an existing list entry as a starting point, modify it and then decide between replacing the original ban with the new version or adding it as an additional ban.
• The topic history list in the Channel Settings dialog has seen a number of behavioral and reliability improvements.
• Updated various dialog layouts to better comply with the alignment rules of the KDE 4 HIG.
• The URL list in the URL catcher tab now sports a new Date column and can be sorted. The sorting settings are saved and restored across sessions.
• Fixed a bug causing the vertical spacing inbetween the regular mode checkboxen on the “Modes” tab of the Channel Settings dialog to change when the display of the advanced mode list was toggled or the dialog was resized.
• The Join Channel dialog now sports a combo box listing all open connections (and the nicknames used on them, to be able to tell multiple connections to the same network apart), with the connection owning the active tab automatically pre-selected. This allows one to pick the connection to join the channel on regardless of the active tab at the time the dialog is invoked (e.g. via the keyboard shortcut). Previously, the dialog would only operate on the connection owning the active tab (and display it in a static label), possibly requiring one to switch to a suitable tab first.
• Fixed a bug causing the “Clear History” item in the context menu of the channel combobox in the “Join Channel” dialog not to clear the history correctly; while it would be gone for as long as the dialog was open, it would be back when closing and reopening the dialog.
• Fixed a bug causing a crash on Windows when middle-clicking the chat text view.
• Fixed a bug causing the pasting of clipboard contents using keyboard shortcuts not to work when the chat text has keyboard focus.
• Fixed a bug causing the setting or removing of a ‘q’ channel mode to be mistakenly announced as giving or taking channel owner privileges on networks where it’s actually a type of ban.
• Fixed a bug causing a crash when pressing the “Ok” button in the “Join Channel” dialog without entering anything in the dialog’s “Channel:” input field beforehand.
• More robust Unicode handling to make interaction with the D-Bus daemon more reliable.