Software Details:
Version: 1.2.0
Upload Date: 20 Feb 15
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 61
KouChat is a simple serverless chat client for local area networks. KouChat project is written in Java, and is free software.
Features:
- Main chat
- Private chat
- Selectable text color for your user
- See when someone writes
- Away mode
- Topic
- File transfer
- System tray integration
- Sound notification when minimized to tray
- Logging
- No configuration needed
- Console mode
What is new in this release:
- Improved debug logging
- Added support for user specified network interface, in the settings
- Fix for "java.io.IOException: mark/reset not supported" when playing sound on newer versions of Java 6 (u33) and Java 7 (u5)
- Added the 4 status icons in svg format
- Added prescaled status icons for the system tray. 16x16px for Windows, 22x22px for KDE and 24x24px for Gnome
- Updated kou_shortcut.ico with sizes from 16x16px to 256x256px
- Updated kou_shortcut.png to 256x256px
- Fixed crash when starting KouChat on systems with the clock set to unix epoch, to support devices without a clock battery
- Fixed several Swing event dispatch thread issues
- Changed the /cancel command from /cancel to /cancel
- Changed the /receive command from /receive to /receive
- Changed the /reject command from /reject to /reject
- Fixed issue where file transfers were still shown in the /transfers command after a user had logged off without cancelling, rejecting or accepting the transfer
- Fixed repaint issue with the buttons when returning from the system tray, on some configurations
What is new in version 1.1.0:
- Fix for PatternSyntaxException when parsing commands containing regex meta characters
- If the main window is minimized to the system tray and the system tray disappears, the window is shown as minimized in the taskbar instead
- If the system tray is missing, the minimize feature minimizes to the taskbar instead of being deactivated
- Removed annoying error message if the system tray is missing
- Added optional balloon notification on new messages and new private messages
- Changed license to LGPL v3
- Added support for logging private chats
- Added support for the startup argument --no-private-chat to disable private chat
- Added support for the startup argument --always-log to force logging enabled and disable the option to deactivate again
- Added support for the startup argument --log-location to specify a custom directory to store log files
- Increased the number of possible simultaneous KouChat instances (with private chat) and file transfers from 10 to 50
What is new in version 1.0.0:
- Fixed a bug when canceling an ongoing file transfer
- Fixed a concurrency bug in classes for sending and receiving messages
- Changed to using the user name from the operating system as the default nick name if no settings are found
- Added a new dialog window for showing unexpected errors to the user
- Added missing commands for file transfer in console mode
- Added --debug startup option to activate all logging
- Added tips & tricks from the wiki to the help menu
- And some fixes and improvements here and there
What is new in version 0.9.9:
- Hopefully better handling of the network connection
- Smileys
- A choice of which look and feel to use
- Tweaks to the user interface, especially with the GTK+ and Nimbus look and feels
- Improvements to notifications when a new message arrives
- Lots of new code documentation
- Open folder button on the file transfer dialog
- Support for running KouChat on more advanced local networks with routers
- Misc tweaks and fixes all over
Requirements:
- Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
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