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Colloquy 2.2

  -  6.98 MB  -  Freeware

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Colloquy 2.2.


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What's new in this version:

Crashes and High CPU Usage:
- Fix a crash when deleting a connection while a room/chat is still open
- Fix a bug where Colloquy would have very high CPU usage (likely due to a room having the blank chat room bug)

System Support:
- Update the console icon with the Leopard look
- Use correct source list style on Leopard

Localizations:
- Fixes a mixup in the German localization
- Modifies the Italian lozalization and fills in some previously missing strings
- Adds more Japanese localizations
- Fixes the strings in the French localization
- Fixes the "Auto rejoin when kicked from room" preference having no effect in the Traditional Chinese localization
- Fixes where the Room Inspector's minimum size was too small for some localizations

Removals:
- Removes 'Your Name in Chat' and 'Buddy Name in Chat' as options in the General Preferences.
- Remove JVUseTabbedWindow to maintain previous behaviour.
- Disables the Drawer interface.
- Disables the Transcript Browser.
- Don't create the Colloquy Transcripts folder if logging is disabled.
- Don't WHOIS server operators when checking periodically checking for online users in watch rules.

Commands:
- Fix /reload style and adds /reload all.
- Adds the /unignore command.
- Allows you to use commands with tab completion.

Styles:
- Initially select the Colloquy.png background when customizing styles so selecting None works the first time.
- In the DecafBland style, long nicknames will now be truncated instead of wrapping to the next line.
- If a nick is hyphenated in the Bland style, it will no longer wrap to the next line.

Notications and errors:
- Handle IRC error '404 cannot send to channel' and show an alert.
- Handle IRC error 477 'room does not support modes' or 'identify to join room', also show the literal reason in the error alert, if available.
- Adds a warning if you try to switch to a nickname that is currently being used.
- Displays an error message when your nick fails to change because you are changing it too fast, or if a room you are in doesn't allow it.
- Add more notification when a user if offline or away when a private chat is open. And prevent sending when they are offline.
- Adds support for IRC errors 'Room is Full (+l)', 'Invite Only Room (+i)' and 'Banned from Room (+b)' to Chat Core and handling of these three errors plus 'Room Password Incorrect (+k)'.
- Updates the Growl framework.
- Displays message(s) for room activity in Growl notifications.

Connections:
- Add checks to prevent trying to join a room twice.
- Step back how frequent reconnects are attempted.
- Use the SystemConfiguration framework to reconnect faster after a network interuption.
- Fixes an issue where connections to some Undernet servers fail because of no ident.
- Correctly set and remember the preferred nickname when changing it in the user interface. Unlike /nick wich is only a temp change while connected.
- Fix for servers that send multiple mode prefixes in the NAMES message.
- Treat the - prefix as operator. Some say it should be 'super op' but we don't have that extra mode.

DCC and File Transfers:
- Allows you to change the width of the File Transfer window.
- Fixes our turbo DCC SEND requests, some were missing a space.

Messages:
- Fixes nick tab completion for nicks beginning with "".
- Adds some more emoticon combinations.
- Fixes a bug where changes to emoticons were not reflected in appearance preview.
- Fixes a bug where send message events in AppleScript would return 'missing value'.
- Fix the issue where scroll events would affect background windows.
- Make private messages to other users while connected to a bouncer show up when not sent from the current computer.
- More than one consecutive space will now display correctly in the topic bar.
- Support more URLs such as Skype, Spotify and mailto.

Misc:
- Fixes an error in the Buddy List. When you add a buddy to the server freenode.net, it wouldn't be recognized.
- Allows you to add buddies to top level servers and remain in effect server-wide.
- Fixes some leaks.