Emesene 1.6 Released, What’s New?

By , Published January 6, 2010

Instant Messaging client 'Emesene' slipped a new release out on Monday but what's new in it?

Aside from bug fixes all round – which even the team themselves admit €œwe’re too lazy to write ‘em all€ €“ there are a few GUI changes that you'll likely come across€¦

New Preferences Windows

We blogged about this back in early December where we were stoked to see better sorting of configuration options and loved the few new features that slipped in.

The €œtabs€ are now presented on the left-hand side (as opposed to the top in previous versions) making it more in line with out desktop applications' preference windows. It also now displays much better on netbook screens, which are wider rather than taller.

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New Features

Amongst the new-look menu's you're find some really great new features and improvements.

Conversation Style Previews

No longer just a drop-down box relying on you already knowing how they'd look; conversation style previews help you get the type of layout that you really want.

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Easy Install Themes

Icon and emoticon themes can be installed with simplicity via the new 'install new' feature.

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What Else is new?

€œNickname Roaming€ comes to Emesene. €œWhat is that?€ you ask. It allows your nickname and personal message to be €œsaved€ between sessions and used when you log to another MSN client (that supports it) on any other machine. It also means whatever you set your status as in those will be used when you login to Emesene again.

If you dual boot Windows and Ubuntu €“ you'll soon see!

Sound is no-longer a plug-in but is part of Emesene's €œcore€.

Install/Download

Oddly download links for 1.6 still aren't up. If you can't wait and want it already you can use the Emesene SVN PPA €“ which offers up a weekly snapshot of Emesene's development version.

Add the PPA

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bjfs/ppa

If you already have Emesene installed follow that up with: -

  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

If you don't have Emesene installed, use: -

  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install emesene

Source

If you don't want to add the PPA but still want 1.6 you can download the source: -

When downloaded, move it somewhere safe (your home folder, perhaps) and extract the contents.

In the extracted folder find the file called 'emesene' €“ JUST 'emesene' €“ nothing after it. Double click this and in the pop-up dialog choose €œrun€.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://pinguignu.blogspot.com/ Arilena

    Great news! I love emesene!

  • http://twitter.com/btdwn Hugo M.

    Nice post, but there is a little mistake about the install: ppa is ppa:bjfs/ppa (not bfjs) and the command is add-apt-repository (not apt-add-repository)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Gah! So sorry about that! I -always- get the add-apt-apt-repo-apt-add command wrong. Always.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Gah! So sorry about that! I -always- get the add-apt-apt-repo-apt-add command wrong. Always.

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Nice!! =D I don’t use MSN, but emesene would definitely be my client…

  • Anonymous

    Yeah emesene is very awesome :D

  • Anonymous

    Yeah emesene is very awesome :D

  • http://twitter.com/Sandstrand Kenneth

    “Oddly download links for 1.6 still aren’t up. If you can’t wait and want it already you can use the Emesene SVN PPA – which offers up a weekly snapshot of Emesene’s development version.”

    Oddly enough I found the downloads for the 1.6 client, but the PPA repo only gives 1.5 r1775 release (also a little buggy version). Anyone else tried from the PPA?

  • http://twitter.com/Sandstrand Kenneth

    “Oddly download links for 1.6 still aren’t up. If you can’t wait and want it already you can use the Emesene SVN PPA – which offers up a weekly snapshot of Emesene’s development version.”

    Oddly enough I found the downloads for the 1.6 client, but the PPA repo only gives 1.5 r1775 release (also a little buggy version). Anyone else tried from the PPA?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Well can you share the link to the 1.6 versions then? Because “http://www.emesene.org/download.html” only gives 1.5.1.

      • http://twitter.com/Sandstrand Kenneth

        The source is at the bottom, seems like the packages hasnt been built yet..

      • http://twitter.com/Sandstrand Kenneth

        The source is at the bottom, seems like the packages hasnt been built yet..

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          Well you didn’t read the article before posting your original comment because i linked to the source package and gave instructions for using it =P

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          Well you didn’t read the article before posting your original comment because i linked to the source package and gave instructions for using it =P

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Well can you share the link to the 1.6 versions then? Because “http://www.emesene.org/download.html” only gives 1.5.1.

  • Emesenequestion123

    When will this be an official update for Ubuntu (by official I mean it will autoupdate)? Because I don’t like adding all things by hand, but if it takes a long time, I will, because I love those updates already without using them :)

    • Anonymous

      It probably won’t get auto-updated. Most applications in the repository don’t get updated until the next Ubuntu release… which is really annoying!

      There should be an option to receive regular updates from applications in the main repo so that we don’t need to keep adding potentially unsafe repositories.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        You can always download the .debs from a PPA manually if you don’t want to add the whole thing.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        You can always download the .debs from a PPA manually if you don’t want to add the whole thing.

    • Anonymous

      It probably won’t get auto-updated. Most applications in the repository don’t get updated until the next Ubuntu release… which is really annoying!

      There should be an option to receive regular updates from applications in the main repo so that we don’t need to keep adding potentially unsafe repositories.

  • Emesenequestion123

    When will this be an official update for Ubuntu (by official I mean it will autoupdate)? Because I don’t like adding all things by hand, but if it takes a long time, I will, because I love those updates already without using them :)

  • http://www.androidtux.co.cc/ yoyo

    emesene-crazy had all these before.. It’s f*cking amazing! I love emesene-crazy and really wanna try emesene 2 (It’ll have support for adium themes!)

  • http://www.androidtux.co.cc/ yoyo

    emesene-crazy had all these before.. It’s f*cking amazing! I love emesene-crazy and really wanna try emesene 2 (It’ll have support for adium themes!)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Emesene-Crazy is no more, it was replaced by Emesene 1.5 (which was the same thing, different name), this is continuing it.

      Emesene 2 is very very very basic atm and shows potential. I do fear that by the time it arrives it’ll have been outpaced by Empathy/Pidgin – all of which can support Adium themes already, empathy can do webcam with MSN, too.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Emesene-Crazy is no more, it was replaced by Emesene 1.5 (which was the same thing, different name), this is continuing it.

      Emesene 2 is very very very basic atm and shows potential. I do fear that by the time it arrives it’ll have been outpaced by Empathy/Pidgin – all of which can support Adium themes already, empathy can do webcam with MSN, too.

  • http://joshualuckers.nl Anonymous

    Looks good but I still prefer Pidgin. I like it plain!

    • Anonymous

      You can make emesene plain, possibly even more minimal if you wanted!

      • http://joshualuckers.nl Anonymous

        Might be a good idea for me to test it then. Thanks!

  • http://joshualuckers.nl Anonymous

    Looks good but I still prefer Pidgin. I like it plain!

  • daas88

    i hope it has several bug fixes, i’ve been using the stable version (1.5.1) in archlinux but my girlfriend have been using the latest ppa in ubuntu and has had a lot of complains =/
    i’ll download the source and give it a try!

  • http://pinguignu.blogspot.com/ Arilena

    Hi. Wich one is the repository for Jaunty. I like the new way of adding the repositories for Karmic, but it doesn’t work on Jaunty and I don’t know wich is the equivalent for the old fashing way of adding repositories on /etc/apt/sources.list

    Thanks!