Changelog for K Xicq

K Xicq is a ICQ clone for the KDE project based on the ICQ libs from XTROPHY.

author : Herwin Jan Steehouwer ( herwinjs@palet.nl ) aka Gompy
Libs   : tnc, Mercury
URL    : http://www.xtrophy.dk/xicq


end of May:

* get the idea to create a ICQ clone for KDE when i read the Xicq homepage !
* get in contect with TNC, he was verry helpfull !!
* created the layout of the K Xicq
* recieved a snapshot from the lib
* begin to implement the libs
* first try to connect and put the users in the right KTabListBox
* created dialogs for sending an recieving MSG
* recieving MSG, Info, URL etc in a KMessageBox ;-)


may 30:
* start with saving revieved MSG in a file
* saving works now with KConfig

may 31:
* message don't popup when they arrived but there is a icon placed
  in the KTabListBox's
* removed some bugs

june 1:
* try to fix most of the known bugs

june 2:
* found a BIG bug in the changeItem() part
* K Xicq is much more stable now

june 3:
* found a bug in the diconnect and reconnect
* found a BIG bug in the storrage of MSg's in the KConfig file
  it can only hold msg upto 88k or so, after that it cores ;-(
* I will first make K Xicq stable with only the MSG function before
  implemented new functions !!!
  
june 4:
* create a own save/restore routing for MSG's etc
* created this changelog, so we can see what is going on ;-)
* created about window's ;-)
* quit is working now  
* found bug in addItem()
* use the statusbar for connection info
* added retry in a connect

june 5:
* save/restore recieved URL's

june 6:
* view URL's
* change and add soms pixmaps
* found little bugs
* status changing is working now

june 7:
* change the filenames 
* URL sending is now working
* changed the Layout a bit
* saving and restoring ADDED is implemented ( not tested YET )
* reading Unknown/server MSG, URl etc..

june 8:
* begin with new layout for read recieved MSG

june 9:
* working on the reading of MSG etc..

june 10:
* read MSG and old MSG is working !! ( also URL ;-) )

june 11:
* working on the MSG read
* added the first config dialogs..

june 12:
* working on the config dialogs

june 14:
* fixing bugs in MSG reading
* add more icons on toolbar
* make double click for MSG reading work

june 15:
* fixed function dos2config
* add Added Msg to read Dialog

june 16:
* working on confg stuff
* removed some debug prints
* found little bug in creating config dialog 

june 17:
* testing

june 19:
* try to find a bug in the config stuf, it cores every time i press OK

june 20:
* see june 19 ;-(( still not found !
* removed some other big bugs in saving MSG, config2dos dos2config etc..
* replaced a lot of char *string in QString string

june 21-25:
* been sik, only removed some bugs and do soms recoding

june 26:
* make it work with the new snapshot !

june 27-juli 2:
* fixing a lot of mem pointer bugs, some pieces are totaly rewritten

juli 3:
* fixing a URL saving bug.

juli 4:
* compiling now just out of the box from libXicq, no modification needed from the struct.h etc..
* recode the libXicq about box
** Release of 0.2.0 **
* beginning with 0.2.1

juli 5:
* make changes in TNC install script
* KXicq and libXicq en Xicq will be in one distribution with a COOL install script !
* included KURLLabel
* found a bug in repainting the allread MSG icon in the lists
* found the config apply/OK bug... ( after 4 weeks ;-) )

juli 6:
* try to get config to work

juli 8:
* get config to work !!
* fixed config save routine
* fixed visual bugs  

juli 9:
* created new dialog

juli 10:
* fixed memleak bugs with Electric Fence
* making connects work in config dialog

juli 11:
* fixed a unread/'has new MSG' icon place bug
* add more ICQ servers
* save/read kxicqrc is working
** RELEASE 0.2.1 **
* beginning with 0.2.2 
* fixed little bug with sounds beep on recieving MSG
* fixed resize events, so no hardcode height and width. moving ToolBar are MenuBar are working now
* making URL opening working with KFM or other ( eg Netscape )
* making the sound configurable  

juli 12:
** RELEASE 0.2.2 **


Things i want to implement:
* add browser/email connections
* a docked version
* make it work with better KDE pre 1.0 
* better graphics... anybody ?
* a lot more...


