Gajim development news
This month brings improved Ad-Hoc commands, fixes for Gajim Portable, and new image preview capabilities. Meanwhile, work on Gajim’s next version made some progress: better code block styling, chat filters, note to myself, and much more.
Through Gajim’s Ad-Hoc commands window, you are able to configure service settings, gather infos, or trigger various other actions offered by your provider. The Ad-Hoc commands window has now been ported to the new Assistant, which you already know from Gajim’s Account Creation for example. This lowers maintenance effort and allows all tasks with a ‘wizard’ workflow to have consistent design and behaviour.
On Windows, you can choose whether you want to install Gajim on your system or if you want to have a portable version of Gajim inside a single folder. For distribution of Gajim Portable, we use an installer which extracts all relevant files into a directory of your choice. However, this process sometimes fails if you upgrade an existing Gajim Portable folder. This issue has now been fixed by applying a cleaning mechanism before extracting the new version. Your user data won’t be touched, of course.
Meanwhile, work on the next Gajim version made some progress:
If you haven’t seen it yet: lovetox (Philipp Hörist), current maintainer of Gajim, gave a first introduction to what’s coming with the next version:
This is only part of what we’re planning to do for the next release of Gajim. Stay tuned!
Gajim’s URL Image Preview plugin is now able to generate previews for WEBP and JXL files. MIME type guessing has been improved as well.
This month, Ad-Hoc Commands (XEP-0050) compliance has been improved.
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