Psi+ features

Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users.

Psi+ – Development branch of Psi XMPP client by psi-dev@conference.jabber.ru

Project Purpose: Collection, refinement and writing new patches for transfer them to Psi upstream developers.

Psi+ Groupchat: psi-dev@conference.jabber.ru

Differences between Psi+ beta version and the official Psi 0.15-dev version

Differences between Psi+ 0.15.2215 Beta version and the official Psi 0.15-dev version as of 2010-04-25 are below:

Conferences

Easy to edit and view the topic with disabled modality
Context-menu to quick change affiliation (rank and roles)
Write a nickname by clicking on it in the conference log
Context menu when right-clicking on a nickname in the conference log
Option to disable autologin to specific conference rooms (allows for profiles like at home / in university / at work)
When your nickname is highlighting, show a popup notification message text (optional)
URLs in the topic are changed into clickable links in the conference log
Fixed colors for nickname, the color is obtained by hashing the nickname (optional)
The horizontal scrollbar in the list of participants is disabled
Remote control ad-hoc command to leave a conference room
Initiate voice calls to conference participants
Quickly add and delete conference bookmarks (in the style of Mozilla Firefox)
The topic is shown in a different color in the conference log
System messages are shown in a different color in the conference log
Affiliation icons in the conference participants list (optional)
Custom colors for contacts with different ranks and roles in the conference participants list
Display the icon of the used XMPP client for each participant in the conference (optional)

Interface

XMPP client icons in the roster (optional)
Avatars of contacts in the roster (optional - on/off, left/right)
Default avatar, displayed when a contact has no avatar (optional - options.ui.contactlist.avatars.use-default-avatar)
Mood icons in the roster (optional)
Tune icons in the roster (optional)
Disable the vertical scroll bar in roster (optional)
Display the avatar in pop-up notifications
Display the message text in pop-up notifications (optional)
Button to send a message (optional)
View vCard menu entry in the context menu when right clicking a jid in the message body
Extended set of commands to configure hotkeys
Align the icon on the status button to the centre (as in older versions of Psi)
Show status icons in chat tabs (optional)
Access posting history using Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down, Alt+Home/Alt+End (configurable)
Display event icons in one-to-one chat windows (time, status, sent, delivered, accepted) with optional Autosize
More contrasting color when selecting text
Switch between tabs using Alt+N
Close/hide tabs using the middle mouse button
Display Option to display everything in a single window (like Tkabber)
Disable tab buttons (optional)
Fixed position of the “Subject” when displaying messages as chats
Call button at the Central Bar in the chat window (voice/video call)
“Paste and send” button - in the central bar and in the context menu of the “Send” button (optional)
Template messages - in the Central Bar and the context menu of the “Send” button
View the version node in the service discovery window
Buttons and menus now work when clicking on the icon, rather than on the arrow next to the icon
Extra and updated application icons and iconpacks
Choose a color ?подсветки backlight? messages (highlight)
Display a color picker for url-references? ссылки? in conferences and chats
Specify a custom chat style
Collapse headlines-messages in the roster using Esc
Allow to move tabs
Close button on tabs (optional)
Adjust the position of certain window controls (expand/collapse/Help)
Quick access to the privacy lists the roster menu
At the close of Tab offers no nearby tab, but the one that was opened earlier
Option to display the conference participants list on the left (optional)
New toolbar to search though the chat/conference log
Display music track icons in roster contact popups
Button to maximize the service discovery window, contact search window, as well as some other windows and dialogs
View Groups item in the tray menu
Hide the status icons of contacts in the roster (optional)
Show the status icons of contacts over the avatars (optional)
Display status messages in the roster on one line with the nickname
Ability to customize tooltip colors (font color, background color)
New icons for the roster and system iconpacks
Allow the deactivation of per-group display in the roster (via option options.ui.contactlist.enable-groups and through a button on the toolbar)
Collapse conferences in the roster
Hide the status icons in tabs (optional)

System

Support for delivery notifications (XEP-0184: Message Receipts)
Portable version of Psi+ (for MS Windows) - use the batch file psi-portable.bat (work in progress)
Support for entity time to discover the time at another entity (XEP-0090: Legacy Entity Time, XEP-0202: Entity Time)
Ability to specify extended presence information in the form of user activities (XEP-0108: User Activity)
Support for jabber: iq: version (XEP-0092: Software Version)
Support for the broadcast stream of Audacious (for Linux)
Added command “idle” to the console (jabber: iq: last)
Check availability of a new version of Psi+ on startup (experimental)
Send a separate status of to a particular contact/conference
Advanced default settings for new accounts
Expanded definition of operating systems
Contact manager (import, export, renaming, moving, subscriptions, etc.)
Directory search using a plugin (for Linux)
The option to add an application close button to the roster
Modifications to the plugin system
Display the plugin version
Improved support for the transition to xmpp-links
Improved display of messages in the IRC mode (Nick says:)
Special combined spelling dictionary for Psi+: Russian + English with support for the Cyrillic letter “Ё”
Ability to manually specify the attributes of the client
Receive/send base64-images in the chat window (interface - plugin)
Support for animated smileys and application themes (in the WebKit-branch)
Extentended the send/receive files form (double-click on received/transferred files opens the associated application and proper file-type icons are displayed for received/transferred files)
Display activity icons
Display icons in the context menu of accounts in the roster
Display XMPP clients icons in roster contact pop-ups
Support for XEP-0080: User Location
Ability to load/unload plugins without restarting Psi+
Automatic detection of icons for contacts that are connected through transports
Display a calendar in the history window (based on patch from `lexa_`), change the location of chatlogs and added a quick search form to all chat windows (test version)
Access to the various application menus for plug-ins
Integrated Psi+ icons in the source code
Configurable hot keys for conference tabs (minimize, maximize, leave)
Newer version of the toolkit, Qt v4.6.2
Win32OpenSSL v0.9.8n (mingw)

More information about applying the patches can be found here.

Plugins

Attention Plugin - plugin to send an Attention message, compatible with Pidgin, Miranda IM (with the Nudge plugin), etc.
Autoreply Plugin - plugin to autoreply
Birthday Reminder Plugin - birthday and anniversary reminder plugin
Captcha Forms Plugin - plugin for captcha passing directly from the Psi+ Chess Plugin - plugin for playing chess. The plugin is compatible with Tkabber
Cleaner Plugin - plugin to clear the avatar and vCard cache, as well as the chat history
Conference Logger Plugin - plugin to log conferences
Extended Options Plugin - Plugin for easy configuration of additional parameters (advanced options) in Psi+
Gmail Service Plugin - notification of new messages in Gmail
History Keeper Plugin - plugin to remove the history of marked contacts when exiting Psi+
ICQ Must Die Plugin - plugin to transfer contacts from ICQ to XMPP
Image Plugin - send image files embedded in an instant message
Juick Plugin - plugin to work with the Juick service
Qip X-statuses Plugin - plugin to display x-statuses of QIP Infium contacts
Screenshot Plugin - plugin for creating and editing of screenshots with the option of uploading them to a specified HTTP/FTP server
Skins Plugin - plugin for creating and using using of skins in Psi+
Stop Spam Plugin - anti-spam plugin
Storage Notes Plugin - plugin to keep notes on the XMPP server, with access to them from Psi+ or Miranda IM
Translate Plugin - automatically transliterate text in the send message field
Video Status Changer Plugin -
Watcher Plugin - plugin to monitor the status of certain contacs