KMess 2.0.1 released

[Sjors Gielen]

November 30 2009 -- The KMess team announces today the immediate  
availability of our first point release: KMess 2.0.1, the newest  
version of a Live Messenger (MSN) client powered by the KDE platform.  
It contains a slew of bug fixes, general improvements, but also some  
nice new features:

* added full handwriting support using our new ISF-Qt library.
* added Roaming support for display picture, friendly name and  
personal message.
* added ability to drag-and-drop an image to a chat, to send it.
* added chat window buttons to quickly change message font and color.
* added a "Log in automatically" checkbox to the initial view.
* fixed pixelated downscaling of pictures in the contact list?
* fixed multiple notification problems.
* fixed losing the friendly name on login.
* fixed some crashes and memory leaks.
* improved the emoticons settings.
* the transfers window now appears in the background instead of  
minimized.
* the minimum size of the message editor is now one line of text.
* and other smaller updates and fixes.
The screenshots page[0] provides a detailed overview of what KMess  
looks like.

You can find the source code at the downloads page[1], and binary  
packages for various distributions will start flooding in soon.

Thanks to 25 volunteer translators, KMess is available in 16  
languages. Other people, without whom this release would not be what  
it is today, as well as the current members of the KMess team, are  
listed on our People page[2].

Any remarks, notes, threats, treats, as well as bug reports can be  
posted at our forums[3]. You can also send us messages using the  
LikeBack client built into KMess, accessible via Help -> Send a  
Comment to the Developers. We wish you a lot of fun and chatting with  
KMess!

--

The KMess team

[0] http://kmess.org/screenshots/

[1] http://kmess.org/download/

[2] http://kmess.org/people/

[3] http://kmess.org/board/