What’s New
Gajim 2.1 comes with a new page called ‘Activity feed’. Currently, it displays events around group chat invitations, contact requests, and updates. Clicking an event allows you to act on it (e.g. accept an invitation) A badge indicates new activities on the top left corner of Gajim’s window. This will be the central feed for all kinds of activities in the future (e.g. reactions, replies, mentions, message reminders).
Activity feed in Gajim 2.1
If you have more than one account enabled in Gajim, accounts will now be displayed inside a menu available at the bottom left corner of the window. A left click brings you to your account, while a right click allows your to set your status.
Account and status selection in Gajim 2.1
When following large group chats across multiple devices, you’ve probably experienced this: You read all new messages on one device, and later you switch to another device, but all those messages you’ve already read are now shown as unread messages. Seeing if you have read messages on another device is now supported by Gajim through XEP-0490: Message Displayed Synchronization. This feature is also supported by Conversations on Android for example. Thanks @nicoco for contributing to this feature!
A note for Windows users: At the time of writing, there are some issues with emoji rendering on Windows. That’s why there is no release of Gajim 2.1 for Windows yet. This issue should soon be resolved and we will post an update once Gajim 2.1 is released on Windows.
More Changes
- Status icon: Fixed showing menu correctly
- Emoji chooser: Fixed segfault after choosing emoji, which occurred on some systems
- Nickname: Fixed displaying published nickname correctly
- Start chat: Added ‘Execute Command…’ menu item
- Removed unread message confirmation dialog at shutdown
And much more! Have a look at the changelog for a complete list.
