From kde-announce Wed Jul 22 02:04:59 1998 From: Kurt Granroth Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:04:59 +0000 To: kde-announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: KBiff v1.0 -- mail notification utility X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce&m=90221935129364 Hi, KBiff is finally out of beta! I have just released version 1.0. This is a highly stable release. WHAT? ----- KBiff is a biff utility. It is highly configurable but very easy to use and setup. It tries to combine the best (or at least *all*) of the features of most of the other "biff" programs out there. WHY? ---- ... use it at all? KBiff has a number of advantages over the competition o Pure GUI configuration. No command line paramters or strange config files. All settings for KBiff can be done from one setup dialog o Session management. KBiff starts up with the same configuration you left it with. o Panel docking. KBiff can be docked into the panel very easily. Handy when you are monitoring several mailboxes and don't have the room anywhere else. o System sounds. KBiff can play a .wav file when new mail arrives o Animated gifs. KBiff can handle GIF89 animated gifs o POP3 support. KBiff can monitor a remote mailbox using the POP3 protocol as if it were a local mailbox o Highly configurable. There are very few things in KBiff that you have to accept. Most things can be changed to fit your needs. Changes since 0.8 (abbreviated) ------------------------------- o Added user contributed animated GIF and WAV files to contrib dir o Support for larger fonts and i18n is better now o Changed configure scripts to be more robust o Fixed a few minor bugs and tweaked a few things Begin3 Title: KBiff - Mail notification utility Version: 1.0 Entered-date: 21JUL98 Description: "xbiff"-like mail notification utility. Has multiple pixmaps, session management, and GUI configuration. Can "dock" into KDE panel. Can display animated gifs, play system sounds, or run arbitrary shell command when new mail arrives. Supports POP3 mailboxes. Keywords: biff mail utility KDE Qt Author: Kurt Granroth Maintained-by: Kurt Granroth Home-page: http://home.sprintmail.com/~granroth/kbiff Alternate-site: http://www.nerds.with.no.net/kbiff Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/utils Primary-site: http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth/kbiff 236897 kbiff-1.0.tar.gz 976 kbiff-1.0.lsm Platform: Linux, Solaris. Needs Qt and KDE Copying-policy: GPL End -- Kurt Granroth kurt_granroth@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group Ground Systems Division Diversified Technologies Services Software Engineer