April 21, 2004

Mercury 0.3a....

After month's of inactivity, a job change, and an 850+ mile move I finally got back into the Mercury code. The result is Mercury 0.3a.

  • The contact list is now sorted (by the name stored on the Sametime server for your contact or group)
  • The View menu contains an option to show/hide offline contacts
  • Finally, the contact list has been updated to use an icon in the same manner that iChat does
Now for the next release the features I am targeting are:
  • Conversion of the message view to use WebKit to render so that styling your message windows will be simple for all users
  • Conversion of the Preferences interface to use a preference pane system and an expansion of the preferences available to you.
  • Conversion of the password storage mechanism to use the Mac OS X keychain instead of its current insecure implementation.
  • Finally, there are a few other UI issues that I'm looking to address that don't fit into words so well
I hope these updates will make Mercury a better fit for all of you, the donate button is still active and donations are appreciated now more than ever. If I don't have a feature you want yet, let me know! (mercury at idavidson dot net).

Posted by developer at April 21, 2004 10:35 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Are you planning to have a feature to save your chat session when you are done. I currently don't see a way to do that. That way, if I want to refer to the conversation, I can look up old chat transcripts to see the details.

Posted by: Victor at April 22, 2004 10:50 AM

Thanks for your continued development of Mercury. It makes life with my 15" PowerBook much easier at Cisco! My ThinkPad isn't so happy though....

Posted by: Richard Law at April 22, 2004 11:17 AM

Did meeting support ever make it in? I saw from earlier posts that it was being worked on, and it would be real useful from my point of view...

Posted by: Alan Leslie at April 22, 2004 11:33 AM

Yes, group chat would be a much appreciated feature. Thanks for all your hard work, it's looking great.

Posted by: Grant at April 22, 2004 11:46 AM

Coudl you add the chat feature like Sametime has. It is used here quite often and with it I can get away from Virtual PC!!

Posted by: Don at April 22, 2004 01:06 PM