-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is an extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
+Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
lightweight, and fast e-mail client
Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* The binary is now 'sylpheed-claws' and not 'sylpheed'
-
-* The default config dir is now '~/.sylpheed-claws'. The user will
- be prompted to perform an automatic migration of configuration
- options to this new directory.
-
-* A new default internal icon theme has been added, based on the
- Gnomaws theme.
+* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
New in this release:
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-* Every Alert Panel now has keyboard accelerators.
+Manual
+------
+* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
+ It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
+ the main toolbar.
+
+Icon legend
+-----------
+* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
+ by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
+
+Priting
+-------
+* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
+ the optional libgnomeprintui support.
+
+Command line usage
+------------------
+* '--exit' has been added.
+
+* '--subscribe' has been added.
+ Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
+ if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
+ using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
+ able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+
+* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
-* An 'Only once' button has been added for overriding Offline mode
+* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
+GUI improvements
+----------------
+* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
-* Messages are now sorted by Date by default
-
-* An offline switch has been added to the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Speed improvements to IMAP have been added.
-
-* When replying to an ML post with a Reply-To set on the poster's
- email, set the ML address in the To field and the Reply-To address
- in the Cc: field.
-
-* A warning dialog has been added on Mark all read, with a pref to
- prohibit it from re-asking.
-
-* GnuPG support:
- The noticeview is now shown on the message/rfc822 part in addition
- to the text/plain part.
- The privacy icon in the noticeview is now clickable and also uses
- key C to perform the signature check.
- The Trust field has been moved into Full info display.
- When trust is less than full, don't display a warning icon.
- Visual feedback is provided in the statusbar when checking
- signature.
- The PGP/MIME signature file is now named 'signature.asc'.
- The dialog for entering a passphrase has been improved.
-
-* Local deletion of news posts has been added.
-
-* A file selector has been added for selecting an account's Signature
- file
-
-* Many window sizes are now remembered.
-
-* The presense of marked msgs in unexpanded subfolders is now indicated
- by the icon of the parent folder.
-
-* QuickSearch:
- The message list is reset when the dialog is hidden.
- The 'Sticky' option, for keeping the search activated across folders.
-
-* The Subject is now set when forwarding multiple mails.
-
-* When a default Cc or Bcc is used, a check is performed to make sure
- the To header has also been set.
-
-* In the filtering dialog a warning dialog is shown if the rule was
- not saved.
-
-* The file and directory Browse buttons, ("...") have been improved.
-
-* When double-clicking an attachment the "Open with" dialog is
- presented if no command was found for the file type.
-
-* The X-Face has been added to the message view and can be toggled by
- '/Configuration/Preferences/Message View/Text options/Display
- X-Face in messageview'.
-
-* The message list context menu has been reworked.
-
-* When replying to a mail sent by yourself, Reply excludes your own
- address from the list of recipients. 'Reply All' and 'Reply to
- sender' still work like before.
-
-* When the Folder Preference 'Default To for replies' the entry in
- the Compose window is presented in bold text.
-
-* The About window has been reworked.
-
-* In the Themes preferences the list of themes is now alphabetically
- sorted.
-
-* updated translations: British English, Catalan, French, German,
- Italian, Norwegian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish.
-
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 826, 'X-Server hangs when right-clicking a PGP
- encrypted message'
- o bug 827, 'sylpheed-claws-gtk2: "Welcome" setup wizard after
- a permission error gives up & forgets itself.'
- o bug 828, 'Ignoring headers with spaces around = sign'
- o bug 829, 'Non-working "Encrypt message by default when
- replying to an encrypted message"'
- o bug 833, 'Autocompleting from addressbook fails with
- extended chars'
- o bug 834, 'Pressing CTRl-D on a message marked as locked
- crashes sylpheed.'
- o Fix mbox import/export buglets
- o fix disabled Execute menu item
- o Fix selection of current theme in prefs
- o Reselect "None" Privacy system when selecting an account
- with no privacy system defined
- o IMAP: Fixes related to mail subdir, creation and deletion
- of folders
- o IMAP: Don't allow creation of folders in NoInferior folders
- o IMAP: Fix bug when moving a folder
- o Fix pref corruption on folder move.
- o Fix corruption of column titles in summaryview
- o Fix SSL manager buttons' layout resizing when window size
- changes
- o fix news folder Folder Properties
- o Fix encoding issue in Save all and in overwrite-
- confirmation alertpanel
- o jPilot: Fix encoding
- o gnomeprint: Fix date format
- o Actions: fix crash on menu creation due to '/' in the
- action menu name
- o Fix updating of 'n items selected' count in summaryview
- when deselecting
- o Fix building on Solaris
- o Fix cursor position if quotation gets rewrapped.
+* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
+
+Main Toolbar
+------------
+* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
+
+* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
+ account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
+
+Compose window
+--------------
+* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
+ to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
+
+* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
+
+* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
+ ordered.
+
+Message View
+------------
+* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
+
+Quick Search
+------------
+* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
+ user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
+ criteria.
+
+* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
+ enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
+ up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
+ the folder list.
+
+* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
+ background for greater visibility.
+
+Address book
+------------
+* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
+ using '*'.
+
+Preferences
+-----------
+* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
+ from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
+
+* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
+
+* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
+ '/Display/Colors'.
+
+* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
+ as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
+
+Plugins
+-------
+* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
+ one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
+ requirements are matched.
+
+* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
+ plugin.
+
+* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
+
+* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
+
+* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
+ licence has been added.
+
+* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
+
+Tools
+-----
+* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
+ Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
+ to Claws filtering rules.
+
+Translations
+------------
+* new Greek and Swedish translations.
+
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
+ French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
+ Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
+
+* Bugfixes:
+ o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
+ o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
+ o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
+ Receipt'
+ o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
+ message'
+ o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
+ view window'
+ o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
+ o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
+ o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
+ o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
+ contents'
+ o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
+ o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
+ o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
+ o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
+ o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
+ Drafts'
+ o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
+ button
+ o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
+ folder
+ o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
+ o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
+ o possible crash on connection failure when sending
+ o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
+ plugins
+ o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
+ isn't set
+ o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
+ o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
+ o cursor positioning not obeying %X
+ o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
+ clicking, with aspell.
+ o autosave on IMAP
+ o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
+ o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
+ o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
+ o wrapping issues
+ o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
+ error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
+ o forget SMTP password if wrong
+ o recursive prefs apply
+ o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
+ o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
+ o allow templates without text
+ o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
+ o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
+ o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
+ o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
+ o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
+ unloaded
+ o update the default keybinds
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
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