From 0baed0da940c0d82280a5674d7fa8ad06d449384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:09:50 +0000 Subject: Allow changing the name of the control channel at run-time. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index 700df7bb..f8ae4386 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -510,6 +510,16 @@ + + &bitlbee + + + + Normally the control channel where you can see all your contacts is called "&bitlbee". If you don't like this name, you can rename it to anything else using the rename command, or by changing this setting. + + + + false -- cgit v1.2.3 From 545d7c058d0604dd6acfa37c68e9867e72f25c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:18:28 +0000 Subject: Added ignore_auth_requests setting (patch from vmiklos, bug #578). --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index f8ae4386..df99c1fc 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -586,6 +586,17 @@ + + true + + + + Only supported by OSCAR so far, you can use this setting to ignore ICQ authorization requests, which are hardly used for legitimate (i.e. non-spam) reasons anymore. + + + + + true -- cgit v1.2.3 From e3413cc741d2b0a82183f859d7470922bc581efa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:30:19 -0400 Subject: Added local_display_name setting for MSN accounts and some hopefully clever enough handling for it. Should solve problems with MSN servers forgetting/ overriding display names set by the user. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index df99c1fc..833ea00f 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -608,6 +608,17 @@ + + false + + + + Mostly meant to work around a bug in MSN servers (forgetting the display name set by the user), this setting tells BitlBee to store your display name locally and set this name on the MSN servers when connecting. + + + + + false -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3e5766022e8103765d62343956cf1aeba34b4d82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 04:59:01 +0100 Subject: Show timestamps for offline messages. Including a timezone setting for people using servers outside their own timezone. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index 833ea00f..c8f2de4c 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -838,6 +838,21 @@ + + local + local, utc, gmt, timezone-spec + + + + If message timestamps are available for offline messages or chatroom backlogs, BitlBee will display them as part of the message. By default it will use the local timezone. If you're not in the same timezone as the BitlBee server, you can adjust the timestamps using this setting. + + + + Values local/utc/gmt should be self-explanatory. timezone-spec is a time offset in hours:minutes, for example: -8 for Pacific Standard Time, +2 for Central European Summer Time, +5:30 for Indian Standard Time. + + + + try -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5b9b2b6413d66df01a866205af489eca9f8ea308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 01:55:17 +0100 Subject: Added display_timestamps setting in case some people may not really like them. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index c8f2de4c..df7ee0a9 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -559,6 +559,16 @@ + + true + + + + When incoming messages are old (i.e. offline messages and channel backlogs), BitlBee will prepend them with a timestamp. If you find them ugly or useless, you can use this setting to hide them. + + + + root root, add, add_private, add_channel, ignore -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7a90d02eede836f60a119cf516b145c8bf601d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:16:38 +0100 Subject: Document the Twitter module. And fix the default for auto_reconnect while I'm at it. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index df7ee0a9..0664aaab 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -62,6 +62,24 @@ Account successfully added + + + account add twitter <handle> <password> + + + + This module gives you simple access to Twitter. Although it uses the Twitter API, only Twitter itself is supported at the moment. + + + + By default all your Twitter contacts will show up in your contact list and their tweets will show up as private messages or in &bitlbee depending on your settings. If you want them in a separate channel, use the use_groupchat setting (see help set use_groupchat). + + + + To send tweets yourself, send them to any of your Twitter contacts via /query (doesn't matter who), or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option. + + + account add yahoo <handle> <password> @@ -400,7 +418,7 @@ - false + true @@ -901,6 +919,16 @@ + + false + + + + By default the Twitter module shows all Twitter contacts and their Tweet in &bitlbee and/or private messages. With this setting enabled the module will show all contacts and their Tweets in a separate channel. + + + + false -- cgit v1.2.3 From c0417e80a965d74944260752f4f58378a4cdd8fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:57:44 +0200 Subject: 1.2.6 changelist. --- doc/CHANGES | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index 1cac2dc7..62d2d4df 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -3,6 +3,22 @@ found in the bzr commit logs, for example you can try: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/timeline?daysback=90&changeset=on +Version 1.2.6: +- Native (very basic) support for Twitter. +- Fixed format of status messages in /WHOIS to improve IRC client + compatibility. +- Show timestamps of offline messages/channel backlogs. +- Allow saving MSN display names locally since sometimes this stuff breaks + server-side. (Use the local_display_name per-account setting.) +- Suppress empty "Headline:" messages for certain new XMPP broadcast + messages. +- Better handling of XMPP contacts with multiple resources on-line. Default + behaviour now is to write to wherever the last message came from, or to + the bare JID (usually becomes a broadcast) if there wasn't any recent msg. +- The usual misc. bug fixes. + +Finished ... + Version 1.2.5: - Many bug fixes, including a fix for MSN login issues, Jabber login timing issues, Yahoo! crashes at login time with huge contact lists, @@ -22,7 +38,7 @@ Version 1.2.5: routing issues on Jabber (i.e. messages going someone's phone instead of the main client). -Fixed 17 Mar 2010 +Finished 17 Mar 2010 Version 1.2.4: - Most important change (and main reason for releasing now): Upgraded Yahoo! -- cgit v1.2.3 From e88fbe272c097066e538d670fe8fa907e9847321 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:10:10 +0200 Subject: Added a meta-contact twitter_$username and replaced the "use_groupchat" setting with a "mode" setting which also allows for a mode where everything just comes from the meta-contact. Tweets should now go to that user or to the channel (if available). Messages to others become DMs. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index 0664aaab..7dd23d0c 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ - Adds an account on the given server with the specified protocol, username and password to the account list. Supported protocols right now are: Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ) and Yahoo. For more information about adding an account, see help account add <protocol>. + Adds an account on the given server with the specified protocol, username and password to the account list. Supported protocols right now are: Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ), Yahoo and Twitter. For more information about adding an account, see help account add <protocol>. @@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ - By default all your Twitter contacts will show up in your contact list and their tweets will show up as private messages or in &bitlbee depending on your settings. If you want them in a separate channel, use the use_groupchat setting (see help set use_groupchat). + By default all your Twitter contacts will come from a contact called twitter_(yourusername). You can change this behaviour using the mode setting (see help set mode). - To send tweets yourself, send them to any of your Twitter contacts via /query (doesn't matter who), or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option. + To send tweets yourself, send them to the twitter_(yourusername) contact, or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option. @@ -658,6 +658,26 @@ + + one, many, chat + one + + + + By default, everything from the Twitter module will come from one nick, twitter_(yourusername). If you prefer to have individual nicks for everyone, you can set this setting to "many" instead. + + + + If you prefer to have all your Twitter things in a separate channel, you can set this setting to "chat". + + + + In the last two modes, you can send direct messages by /msg'ing your contacts directly. Note, however, that incoming DMs are not fetched yet. + + + + + @@ -919,16 +939,6 @@ - - false - - - - By default the Twitter module shows all Twitter contacts and their Tweet in &bitlbee and/or private messages. With this setting enabled the module will show all contacts and their Tweets in a separate channel. - - - - false -- cgit v1.2.3 From b6190ca72d44523bc775ee3fc89b4bdbffe2cff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:34:41 +0200 Subject: Changelog update: Credit where credit is due! --- doc/CHANGES | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index 62d2d4df..a79be7e5 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ found in the bzr commit logs, for example you can try: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/timeline?daysback=90&changeset=on Version 1.2.6: -- Native (very basic) support for Twitter. +- Native (very basic) support for Twitter, implemented by Geert Mulders. + Currently supported are posting tweets, reading the ones of people you + follow, and sending (not yet receiving!) direct messages. - Fixed format of status messages in /WHOIS to improve IRC client compatibility. - Show timestamps of offline messages/channel backlogs. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0f8423414dffedb0a9e8e1e9a041cac356808911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:44:57 +0200 Subject: Help info for the switchboard_keepalives setting. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index 7dd23d0c..a8f030b2 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -886,6 +886,24 @@ + + false + + + + Turn on this flag if you have difficulties talking to offline/invisible contacts. + + + + With this setting enabled, BitlBee will send keepalives to MSN switchboards with offline/invisible contacts every twenty seconds. This should keep the server and client on the other side from shutting it down. + + + + This is useful because BitlBee doesn't support MSN offline messages yet and the MSN servers won't let the user reopen switchboards to offline users. Once offline messaging is supported, this flag might be removed. + + + + local local, utc, gmt, timezone-spec -- cgit v1.2.3 From f4bcc223fea70de8555bbc4d2caf48e0476c0e13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:40:32 +0200 Subject: Finalized 1.2.6 changelog. --- doc/CHANGES | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index a79be7e5..94330bf9 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ Version 1.2.6: - Better handling of XMPP contacts with multiple resources on-line. Default behaviour now is to write to wherever the last message came from, or to the bare JID (usually becomes a broadcast) if there wasn't any recent msg. +- Added a switchboard_keepalives setting which should solve some issues with + talking to offline MSN contacts. (Although full support for offline + messages is not ready yet!) - The usual misc. bug fixes. -Finished ... +Finished 19 Apr 2010 Version 1.2.5: - Many bug fixes, including a fix for MSN login issues, Jabber login timing -- cgit v1.2.3