QutIM 0.2 alpha is waiting for you

After months of hard development, overcoming server problems and other difficulties encountered, the developers of qutIM cross-platform IM client are pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 alpha.

A little about what is version 0.2

First of all, it is worth noting that this is a completely new core, that is, the code of the new cutim is written from scratch and has nothing to do with version 0.1.1.

Should I upgrade to version 0.2?
It’s worth it, since the new version is more powerful, flexible and has more features than the old one.
Briefly about the features of the new version.

Appearance of the program

• Kopete Smile Pack Support
• Design styles for the contact list
• Support for changing the form for chat windows (changing the location of buttons, adding / removing unnecessary ones, etc.)
• Support for Adium and Kopete styles for chat logs
• Popup notification style support
• Adium status pack support
• Icon pack support for the entire application
• Translation Support
• Style support for the entire application
• Contact List Framing Support

New features of the program

• Profile support (the ability to create your own so-called container with individual settings, program style and set of accounts)
• Advanced contact list features
  • the ability to display the status text directly in the contact list under the contact nickname
  • display avatar contacts
  • the ability to swap groups
  • mouse drag contacts from group to group
  • highlighting a contact by typing letters from the keyboard
  • and much more )
• Advanced chat window features and optimized performance
  • context menu of the contact from the chat window
  • support for forms made in Qt Designer
  • more optimized use of RAM in the tab mode than before
• and much more

But the most important introduction is extensibility with third-party plugins.

The following protocol plugins currently exist:

--- ICQ

• x status support
• file transfer
• privacy statuses
• support for private lists, visibility, invisibility lists
• user search
• etc.

--- Jabber / LiveJournal / Yandex / GTalk

• File transfer
• Mood
• Activities
• Ad hoc
• Search Services / Conferences
• Transports Support
• User Search
• Conference Invitations

---Mail.Ru

• Receive / send messages
• Outgoing / incoming input notifications
• Message delivery confirmation
• Sending / processing authorization messages
• Support for RTF messages (text only)
• Offline Messaging Support
• Receive notifications about new letters in the mailbox
• Login to the mailbox from the client (without authorization on the site)
• Add / Edit / Delete Contacts
• Contact Search
• Contact Information
• Avatars
• Ability to send SMS messages

--- IRC

• conferences
• private chat rooms
• main commands (/ me, / nick, / join, etc.)
• CTCP teams
• and etc.

At the moment, adding functionality is frozen and catching and fixing critical errors begins. To write about found errors with a detailed description to the trac.qutim.org program track

Attention! The messages are not a bug: “But in such and such a client like that, but it’s wrong with you, it would be nice to do it”, “I would like to”, “I’m slowing down somewhere,” “something sometimes, "" somehow somehow sort of somewhere. "
To fulfill your desires and Wishlist you have a community, do not get developers with your requests.

Links:
qutIM + ICQ 0.2 alpha for Windows - qutim.org/uploads/qutim_icq_0.2_alpha.exe
qutIM + ICQ, Jabber, IRC, Mail.ru 0.2 alpha for Windows - qutim.org/uploads/qutim_full_0.2_alpha.exe
qutIM 0.2 alpha source - qutim.org/uploads/qutim_0.2_alpha_source.tar.bz2

Ps from torkve: packages for Debian are already being prepared.

Pps A couple of clickable screenshots: Ppps Q2W user compiled qutim and jabber packages for ubuntu i386 users, use: qutim_0.1.99.179-1_i386.deb qutim-dev_0.1.99.179-1_all.deb qutim-protocol-jabber_0.1.99.179.283 -1_i386.deb qutim-protocol-jabber-dev_0.1.99.179.283-1_all.deb