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Unfinished new features:
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___ Invite contacts for a new chat session when the current chat is used for file transfers.
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___ Invite contacts for a new chat session when the current chat has multiple participants (display dialog to choose the contact).
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___ Lookup all "TODO" items in the code.
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Unfinished protocol features:
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___ Integrate UPnP support with file transfer invitation code.
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___ Make sure KMess can send two files at once with the classic file transfer method (test this).
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___ Support a SLP Decline/error message for a sent P2P/SLP transfer invitation, and continue to transfer over the switchboard.
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___ Support a second invitation for file transfers, detect when remote client only returns it's internal IP or does not listen.
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___ Detect network settings, make the other client server for file transfer (sending a second transfer-invite).
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___ Update the classic FileTransfer application to use the new async-cnnect, DirectConnectionPool and showTransfer*() API.
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___ Restore the documentation
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___ Restore the translations
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___ Improve wink playing, include preview, offer "play" button (also see other showWink() issues). Also fixes issues when chat is started with a wink.
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___ Implement phone settings (PRP and BPR fields).
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___ Implement privacy settings (GTC and BLP fields, messages like "can't chat with invited contact" because not in the AL).
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... And if you're up for a challenge, you could try one of the "Low priority protocol features" below too.
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... Or try to implement a new MSN feature (see "Future ideas" section).
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___ Fix repeated picture transfer invitations when contact declines or aborts the invitation (preferably disable only for a few minutes).
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___ Automatically clean up the displaypics folder, and msnpicture-alias-##.png images that are older then 1 month.
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___ Add detection for NAK responses to file transfer invitations
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___ Improve performance of restyling the chat window: combine xml to one string.
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Low-priority features:
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___ Improve wink processing messages of `cabextract` output in ChatWindow::showWink().
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___ When chat window closes, inform user the file transfers will also abort.
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___ See what happens when there is a picture transfer in a multi-chat, and one of the chats becomes busy.
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___ When opening chat windows, shift their position to make them cascade.
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Low-priority code changes:
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___ Add Application::get..TransferAbortMessage().
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___ Only allow plugins/non-local files temporary when displaying winks?
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___ Implement Application::attachToChat(..) feature to improve aborting?
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___ Create a WinkArchive class for the code in ChatWindow::showWink().
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___ Include contact meta-data in receivedMessage() call of ChatWindow::showWink().
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Low-priority protocol features:
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___ Support adding contacts to multiple groups.
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___ Detect multiple external IP addresses to advertise in file transfer invite message.
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___ Support sending the data-preparation ACK later with Windows Live Messenger picture transfers.
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___ Support direct connection setups when requesting contact pictures.
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___ Support aborting the data-preparation, also detect when contact does this.
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___ Support the datacast emulation over MSNP2P for MSNC1-compatible clients (for winks).
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___ Test whether applications need to be aborted when the switchboard reconnects.
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___ Check P2P incomingMessages_ / outgoingMessages_ cache for timeouts.
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___ Leave a P2PApplication half-open to receive a final error message.
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___ Use "URL PERSON/PROFILE" settings.
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Wishes by users for 1.5:
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___ XMMS2 now listening: http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=1569 (use relaytool from autopackage.org for that).
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_Y_ Implement text/x-clientcaps message and MsnObject name to advertise KMess to other third-party messengers.
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_Y_ Add a checkbox to the settingspanel to disable the shaking window effect.
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_Y_ Support emoticons folder with KDE 3.3
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_Y_ Support "now playing" by other contacts, use dcop for our status.
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_Y_ Handle closed direct connection, KMess keeps using the direct connection.
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_Y_ Implement i18n() for chat styles, e.g. use libxml to replace all text nodes, create an XSLT to extract all text nodes.
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_Y_ Fix the memory-leak of sentMessages_ for chat messages, these are only cleared at a NAK currently.
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_Y_ Send previews of images in msn file transfers.
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_Y_ Fix detection of context field splitter in FileTransferP2P::contactStarted1..(), also needed to show image previews.
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_Y_ Contact sidebar width is not saved/restord anymore.
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_Y_ Contact sidebar width is changed when the chat window resizes.
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_Y_ Check if our eventsrc file is found in the KDE-dirs, otherwise warn KMess can't notify or flash the taskbar or play sounds (see: http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=1619)
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_N_ (caused by Beryl bug) "Focus stealing prevention", open the new chat windows in the background by default.
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_Y_ Add save log button to network window.
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_Y_ Improve removing contacts, offer dialog to block the contact as well (currently always kept in allowed list).
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_Y_ Display a message box if the chat logs can't be saved because the folder no longer exists.
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_Y_ Automatically save settings when pressing OK, not when closing KMess.
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_Y_ Fix settings for balloon notifications, see http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=559
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_Y_ Now listening icon is SUSE specific
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_Y_ Fix MsnConnection::addPercents(), replace with KURL::encode_string(), but test for compatibility.
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_Y_ Replace warning message "you can't change your friendly name" with something less unobtrusive.
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_Y_ Emoticons are no longer displayed in the chat settings tab.
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_Y_ Improve settingsdialog height, for 800x600 displays.
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_Y_ Hide the register link when editing an account.
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_Y_ Remove the dependency on QWidget for data-classes.
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_Y_ Add a balloon if the contact start the chat with an filetransfer/nudge/wink.
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_Y_ Implement KDE passive popups so the balloon code can be removed later.
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_Y_ Balloon size fix (2 contacts on balloon), might become obsolute when passive popups are used instead.
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_Y_ Get rid of the balloons
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_Y_ Drag and drop of files in the chat window.
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_Y_ Fix newline shortkey Ctrl+Enter / Shift+Enter in GNOME. In fact it didn't work at all, not only in GNOME. :P
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_Y_ Delete contact settings when contact no longer exists in the contact list.
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_Y_ Implement cleaning up of the kmessrc file, remove old Contact entries that are no longer used.
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_Y_ Make moving of contacts smoother, see MsnNotificationConnection::getAdc().
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_Y_ Fix error messages with 'actions -> new contact' on a 'non-existing contact', 'existing contact' and 'contact without @'.
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_N_ Move network/extra/httpsoapconnection to the network root folder.
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_Y_ Move chat/invitedcontact.h to the contact folder.
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_Y_ Implement text/x-keepalive message so be sure when a contact really left a chat.
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_Y_ Update binreloc support to version 2.0.
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_Y_ Crash with downloading offline-im messages: http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=1490
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_Y_ Login blocks all gui-events: make all connection attempts async
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_Y_ Allow users to scale fonts in the chat window (zoom icons).
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_Y_ Fix problems with clicking on contacts rapidly, see http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=533
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_Y_ Decouple the MsnSwitchboardConnection from the ChatWindow class, for picture transfers in the background.
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_Y_ Highlight the text of the contact list item when it's active.
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_Y_ Fix contact list background picture scrolling
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_Y_ Implement setEnabled() checks for the contact group context menu in KMessView::slotContextMenu().
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_Y_ Optionally download contact pictures when the picture changed but they're not in a chat yet.
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_Y_ Test whether a display picture is fully received, and remove the image from the cache otherwise.
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_Y_ Limit the maximum number of MSN Object simultaneous downloads, to avoid server flooding. See ChatMaster::slotContactChangedMsnObject().
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_Y_ Fix e-mail support for non-Hotmail accounts, don't attempt to use Hotmail. Use chosen app or default KDE mail app instead).
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_Y_ Update the accounts listed in the initial list When one of the registered accounts is deleted.
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_Y_ Improve the contact list contact menu
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_N_ Check if the mutex lock in MsnConnection is really needed anymore.
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_Y_ Restore the context menu in the chat window.
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_Y_ Disallow logging in without having entered a password.
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_Y_ When the switchboard is disconnected (gray contact pictures), the command to invite new contacts will get ignored when a new switchboard gets ready.
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_Y_ In the emoticon settings panel, don't assume "smile.png" will always be available (parse theme, preferably with an EmoticonTheme class).
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_Y_ Include a tooltip in the contact sidebar.
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_Y_ Include a contact menu in the contact sidebar (see https://www.lab.fi.uva.es/~albgonz/kmesss.jpg)
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_Y_ When the contact disables it's picture, should we leave the current one active, or revert the the "unknown" picture?
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_Y__ Group chats: remove contact frame when a user leaves the chat.
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_Y_ Support removing a contact from just one group.
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_Y_ Group chats: fix status bar when multiple users are typing a message.
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_Y_ Implement UPnP support
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_Y_ Add winks support
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_Y_ Add emoticon transfer support
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_N_ "Who has me in his/hers contact list?" dialog (allowed/removed groups already reveal this)
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_N_ Include the network-window as "--with-network-window" if the network-window-code displays traffic nicer.
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_Y_ Account menu's: only show submenu when there are multiple accounts.
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_Y_ Add the ability to select another browser for opened links, instead of the kde's default browser.
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_Y_ Change mouse cursor when hovering over the "personal status message" widget, make non-active background color less dark.
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_Y_ Compact sidebar list as described in http://www.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=460
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(make it optional, let the user choose between "no", "compact", "full")
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_Y_ Contact list items flicker, specially when there are a lot of contacts.
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_Y_ Disable cut/copy for the password line (InitialViewInterface, not using KPasswordEdit because it disables too much).
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_Y_ Group chats: use more compact contact frame.
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_Y_ Group off-line contacts in one single group.
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_Y_ Improve the parsing of *bold* /italics/ and _underline_, so http:/website/ does not become italic and avoid mangling
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<a href="http://website/"> to <a href="http:/<i>/website/</i>">.
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(looks more clean, though it's a bit kmerlin like though, and the current pictures list is not that bad for multi-chat) - Being worked on
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_Y_ Maybe: improve chat window layout like http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=24461
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_Y_ Move utility classes to a separate folder.
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_Y_ Order of the title in the main window, account before or after. Should distinguish from the chat windows though.
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_Y_ Put TcpConnectionBase under MsnConnection.
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_Y_ Remove all #includes for <kdebug.h> and replace it with "kmessdebug.h" (watch for inclusions from subdirs)
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_Y_ See what happens when there is a picture transfer in a multi-chat, and one of the chats becomes buzy.
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_Y_ Use if(KMESS_NULL(..)) checks instead of current if(.. != 0) { .. }
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_Y_ Use kdWarning() instead of kdDebug() << "WARNING", for warning messages.
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_Y_ Add HTTP connection method.
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_Y_ Upgrade to MSNP14, but not until the protocol is fully understood! (it has some radical changes).
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_Y_ Update contact properties edit dialog, icon button for contact icon.
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_Y_ Browse/view the contact picture cache (include meta data, like contact handle and date/time)
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_Y_ GetHotNewStuff (as of KDE 3.4, either support it through a KPart, or wait for KDE 4 conversion)
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_Y_ KWallet integration
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MSN Protocol support:
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___ Improve old file transfer code, multiple connections like MSN5 does.
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___ Implement a settings category ("File transfers") where the user can at least choose:
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- "[x] Allow KMess to control my internet router programmatically [learn more]"
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- "Use the following port to receive UPnP broadcast responses: [default 1900]"
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___ Implement STUN support, also for Connection-Type field, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching.
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___ Add voice (SIP) support
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___ Add Voice clips support, see http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=11505&t=11437
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___ Add webcam (RTP) support, see http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=9837&t=9837
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___ Fix msn remote desktop invitation support (context field with user/pass)
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___ Implement MSN Spaces integration
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___ Implement MSN Games support (ActicitiesCollection : public QPtrList<Activity>)
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___ Implement shared folders.
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___ Check whether gnomemeeting, krdc exists before starting/acceping a session
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___ Support Konference for netmeeting invitations as well.
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___ Detect whether gnomemeeting or konference exists before starting a netmeeting session.
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___ Show an icon overlay for contact connected with webmessenger.msn.com / MSN Mobile
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___ Add contact icon (purple?) for unknown contacts added by others in a multi-chat session.
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___ KDE-IM bridge (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/interfaces/html/classKIMIface.html)
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