Psi/2 0.10.1
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Date: September 26th, 2006


What is Psi
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Psi is a capable Jabber client aimed at experienced users.  Its design
goals are simplicity and stability.  Psi is highly portable and runs on
Windows, OS/2, Unix/X11, and MacOS X.

The interface is very ICQ-like.  Alerts appear in the contact list when
events are received, and things like subscriptions requests appear as
"system messages" (ICQ users know these well).  Even "Chats" are
queued in the contact list.  Also, chats are "remembered" by default,
so that you don't have to keep a bunch of windows open for each person.
Just close the chat window.  If you open it again it will all be there.

Psi is minimal but powerful.  There are keybindings for just about
everything, Unicode is supported throughout, and contacts are cached
offline.  Security is also a major consideration, and Psi provides it for
both client-to-server (SSL) and client-to-client (GnuPG).

This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License.  See
the COPYING file inlcuded in this package for more information.

You can find more information about Psi on the official Psi home page
at http://psi-im.org.  


What is Psi/2
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Psi/2 is a separate development branch of Psi initially created to work on
a version of Psi for OS/2 and eComStation operating systems.  Why a separate
branch?  In ealy 2006, original Psi authors decided to discontinue the support
of the Qt Toolkit Version 3 and ported Psi sources to Qt Version 4.  Psi 0.10
was the last release based on Qt Version 3.  However, Qt Version 4 is not (yet)
available for the OS/2 platform, therefore the sources of Psi 0.10 have been
taken and ported to OS/2.

In the process of porting, several minor Psi bugs were fixed and some few
bits of new functionality were added.  These changes are unlikely to be applied
to the current official Psi sources because of the differences in Qt Toolkits
and because original authors are not interested in supporting the Qt 3 branch.

There are some more improvements planned to the Psi/2 branch.  This branch will
exist until at least Qt Version 4 for OS/2 becomes available.  Please note that
Psi/2 is NOT supported by original Psi developers, so don't send them bug
reports and feature requests.  See below for information about reporting bugs.

In order to clearly distinguish the original Psi application from Psi/2,
the latter is used as the application name for the Psi/2 branch (including
the 'Jabber client name and version' string reported to Jabber servers).
In situations where using the slash character makes problems or even imposible
(such as file names of distribution archives), 'psios2' is used instead.

Currently, binary Psi/2 packages are distributed only for OS/2 and eComStation
(a Windows package based on Qt 3 is planned soon).  If you need a version of Psi
for a different platform, please visit the official Psi home hage mentioned
above.  There you will find the most recent version of Psi based on the Qt
Toolkit Version 4.

The Psi/2 home page is located at http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/Psi.

Binary Psi/2 packages can be found at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/psi.


Installation
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For installation instructions and other platform-specific details, see the
Readme-OS2.txt file included in this package.

For a list of changes, see the included Changes.txt file.


Bug Reports
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To submit a bug report, please visit the Psi/2 home page at
http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/Psi and create a ticket describing the
problem.

Note that in order to create tickets or add comments to existing ones, you will
need to login to the Trac system using a special name and a password specified
on the start page (http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/).


Original Psi Authors
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Thanks to these people for creating one of the best Jabber clients:

Project Lead/Maintainer (2004-current):
    Kevin Smith
    kismith@psi-im.org
    http://www.kismith.co.uk/

Original Author (2001-2004):
    Justin Karneges
    justin@affinix.com
    http://psi-im.org/


Credits
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Thanks to the following people for contributing to the Psi/2 project:

Ivan Smirnoff
    www.sampo.ru/~bigvic 
    OS/2 icon

Juergen Ulbts
    http://www.juergen-ulbts.de
    Initial WarpIn scripts


Psi/2 Authors
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Project Maintainer:
    Dmitry A. Kuminov
    E-Mail: user 'dmik-qt' at domain 'hugaida.com'


Copyrights
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Qt Toolkit Version 3 for OS/2:
    Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Trolltech AS.  All rights reserved.
    Copyright (C) 2004 Norman ASA.  Initial OS/2 Port.
    Copyright (C) 2005-2006 netlabs.org.  Further OS/2 Development.
    http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3