Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons!
Today is a very special day for us. We have a double release to announce!
First, the long awaited add-ons website is now ready for you to use. You will already find a lot of extensions on it since we took care of uploading more than 200 of them. Think about browsing the experimental add-ons, a lot of them are still marked as such. The add-ons website is at this address: https://addons.instantbird.org/.
And last, but not least, Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 is now ready for you to try it! There's a lot of new interesting stuff in this one. Here are some of them, read the release notes for more:
- It is ready to be localized (and you can try an experimental French language pack),
- Improved conversations: you can change conversation styles, smiley themes are now handled.
- We implemented a 'magic' copy/paste feature that will allow you to have pretty quotes out of messages copied from Instantbird. Some bugs may still exist in this.
- As usual, we took great care of stability issues, so Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 is already more stable than 0.1.3.1 at this point, so don't hesitate to give it a try!
You can download the alpha and read the release notes from here.
Written the 2009-07-23 at 17:01:38 by Florian in Announce.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Totoche sent 2009-07-23 at 18:06:53.
Hello,
I don't want to creat un bug for the first day 
The "experimental French language pack" don't work...
Install ok --> but at the restart, Instanbird is always in english ...
(maybe it's me, but i don't find any option for changing language and it's not "automatic"
Sorry my first message is not better...
But thank you for all this great job 
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-07-23 at 18:17:17.
@Totoche: I edited the description of the addon to indicate how to enable it once it is installed.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Totoche sent 2009-07-23 at 20:38:31.
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And ... my second message to congratulate all the team.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Tigsfan sent 2009-07-24 at 00:00:03.
Great work guys! I love the clean message styles, something that other clients (*coughs* Pidgin *coughs*) have been missing for awhile. Also, its running great off my USB, which is a double bonus. Definitely looking forward to the stable release of .2 .
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Instantbirdie sent 2009-07-24 at 03:54:27.
This is EXCELLENT. Main Window Minimize to Tray, Regular Installer, and you are Golden. THIS is showing GREAT promise.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Jinja sent 2009-07-24 at 16:14:15.
Hello Just found this IM and I really like how simple it looks and works. Keep up the good work
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from gatolandia sent 2009-07-25 at 05:18:14.
¿Question? Instantbird only show the online contacts?. I have to create multiple accounts and put the contact across ot them for the item show
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-07-25 at 10:41:34.
@gatolandia: Currently it shows only online contacts, yes.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Michael B. sent 2009-07-25 at 20:47:06.
On the alpha's download page, you mention that Instantbird has an about:config menu. How does one access it? I can't find it.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-07-26 at 03:06:34.
@Michael B.: In the error console, type openDialog('about:config').
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from (anonymous) sent 2009-07-27 at 03:05:22.
I would also have to say that tho I just found this program, it already shows a lot of promises and I hope you guys continue to improve it. The minimalistic nature of the message dialog is great! Though having a message history and being able to minimize the buddy list to tray would be nice
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from 404 sent 2009-08-02 at 16:06:52.
Major step in the right direction! Minimizing to system tray is quite literally the only thing that's stopping me from switching from pidgin right now.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from olecve sent 2009-08-03 at 08:28:44.
I totally agree with 404
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from (anonymous) sent 2009-08-04 at 05:53:41.
I also totally agree with 404
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Even sent 2009-08-04 at 12:23:39.
@404 (and follow up): it should be there for 0.2b1. Stay tuned.
"Minimize to Tray"-problem solved : comment from Mic sent 2009-08-08 at 16:24:47.
There is an addon on the addon-page that allows to minimize the buddy list to tray: https://addons.instantbird.org/en-US/instantbird/addon/211 (Another thing for convenience: there's also an extension that shows incoming messages in a small notification window near the task tray (on windows atleast): https://addons.instantbird.org/en-US/instantbird/addon/208 )
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Lubilia sent 2009-08-08 at 18:31:41.
Votre projet avance dans la bonne voie! Le développement est un peu lent, mais les progrès sont là.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Tare sent 2009-08-13 at 10:48:42.
I love the new Message Styles, it's genial to customise the chat. But one thing I would like to know about it: Is it possible to change the Message Style dependent on the used protocol? So you can say use this Message Style for ICQ and an other for the IRC? Or what would be really great, that the Message Style it self changes dependent on the used protocol. To explain the 'Why', I like the MiniBubble, its my favorite, but cause there are no nicknames shown, what I like at ICQ, in IRC you cant see which user send the message, so it is nessesary to show up the nickname over the incoming bubbles.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from bruno sent 2009-08-31 at 22:03:34.
Hey guys, when the new version is coming out? What are you planning for it?
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-08-31 at 22:10:50.
@bruno: We don't know the release date yet. 'When it's ready' I guess . Probably in a month or two... For more information about what we are planning for it, you can give a look at the roadmap.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Tak sent 2009-09-14 at 16:16:06.
I am starting to use Instantbird 0.1.3.1. Managed to use msn and gtalk. However, whenever I start yahoo. it always stays at connecting stage. Is there any special setting for yahoo. Tak
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-09-14 at 16:20:40.
@TakI think the libpurple version in Instantbird 0.1.3.1 is too old to connect to yahoo properly. You can try the alpha, or a nightly build !
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Tak sent 2009-09-15 at 14:47:08.
Thanks Florian. It works with nightly build
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Francesco <The Player> sent 2009-09-18 at 20:40:47.
It's OK. Version 0.1.3.1 has a bug for Yahoo connction. Version 0.2 alpha works properly. I should remember the parameter for Yahoo. Fill the username field only with <user_name> without "@yahoo.com". Thanks to Florian and Tak. Thanks to all Instantbird developers' (I'm waiting the final ersion 0.2. Good work!)
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Tare sent 2009-11-07 at 08:43:45.
Is there something new, you can tell use? How is the work going? Are you all fine?
(hope my english is understandingly)
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Florian sent 2009-11-07 at 08:47:37.
@Tare: We are all fine. The current work going on is finishing the preference window. We will release a beta once this is finished. If you can't wait to play with something new, you can enjoy the new tabs in nightly builds.
Re: Instantbird 0.2 alpha 1 and addons! : comment from Patrickjdempsey sent 2009-11-30 at 02:28:53.
@ Tare: The nightlies just get better and better! Beta 1 will really impress a lot of people I think! Additions off the top of my head: Buddy list now has "twisties" for the categories and Notification for Mobile buddies (at least for Y! and AIM). They have updated the tabs and borrowed the Options window both from Firefox 3.0. The Options window doesn't just collect the old options but expands on them and offers new things to the table that makes this a world-class messenger! Nightly tests aren't for everyone, but Beta 1 is going to kick butt!