We should smile more!

Here it is, emoticons on the contact list has landed the repository. You can now smile much more!

openSUSE users now can enjoy using Monkey Messenger too. I have downgraded the requirements to gtk-sharp 2.8. Next step: Emoticons on labels/text entries!

Cheers!

Smileys on the contact list

I got bored doing protocol stuff, so i hacked on Monkey Messenger yesterday. The goal was to make emoticon support on the contact list. Here is the result so far:


You can notice that text attributes are not working yet (but it will, i promise!). For now it can do ellipsizing, render emoticons, break lines and mess up with the attributes :)

Cheers!

Custom Emoticons

Long time without any news. But today I got an excellent announce Custom Emoticons!!
Also, the file transfer is almost complete, it got some bugs but is going to be finished soon. A lot of bug fixed too.

Monkey Messenger

Monkey Messenger is an open source (MIT licensed) MSN client written using the MONO framework, gtk+ and the and a modified version of the DotMSN library.

The objective is to build a fully featured MSN Client, with all the functionality provided by the official MSN 7 client. For that, we've changed the DotMSN library to work with MSNP11, which is the protocol version for MSN 7. When MSNP11 is fully covered, we will move to MSNP13.

Monkey Messenger will follow the HIG and the KISS principle.

Current Status

Currently, Monkey Messenger have the basics working and some other features like:

• Display pictures
• Group support
• Timestamping
• Tabbed chat windows
• Is possible to choose any state for your login status
• Messenger Plus Nick Format Support
• Support for Personal Message
• Emoticons
• Nudges
• And a lot more.

We need more people to launch our first beta, you can help if you want to code something or want to test and report bug. Any little help will make the difference.

You're welcome to join the Monkey Messenger team. If you want to help, contact me (jaimerave at gmail dot com) or Thiago (thiago.sayao at gmail dot com) the project leader. See the TODO file included in the source to find what you can do.

Development

The latest code can always be checked out from sourceforge SVN (Subversion) repository:


svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/monkeymessenger monkeymessenger

You can browse the source here.