| System |
- The CVW 4.0 client is available for the following platforms: SPARC Solaris 2.6, i386 Linux.
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| User Interface |
- The Unix client now provides a user interface
for facilitating command entry. A drop down menu provides commands (with hot keys)
for say, say privately (page in Unix client), popup, emote, emote privately, phone, join,
go, idle, find user (who in 3.2 Unix client).
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- Toolbar buttons are no longer flat and raise when the pointer is over them. However, a "Tool tip" is now provided.
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The Unix client provides keyboard shortcuts
for editing the content of the command entry area using a subset of Emacs commands
(Ctrl+K to delete from cursor to end of line, Ctrl+A go to the beginning of the line, etc)
if the preference is selected in on the "Misc" tab.
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The Unix client now displays information
about the current room (Room->Information) and the room managers
for the current room (Room->Permissions).
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- The Unix client now provides a toolbar button
to bring popup messages to the foreground.
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- Any valid URL that appears in the scrollback will automatically hot. To see the URL, the user must double click on them.
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- The administration functions have been moved to an administration tool. To access this tool, login as a user with administrative privileges, select "Admin Tool..." from the "View" menu.
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| User Items |
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The Unix client now provides a list of all
items a user has created and all items the user
has been given permissions to modify
(View->My Items).
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| Commands |
- The Unix client now provides a user interface
for facilitating command entry. A drop down menu provides commands (with hot keys)
for say, say privately (page in Unix client), popup, emote, emote privately, phone, join,
go, idle, find user (who in Unix client).
Past Unix client commands can still be used by using the "Enter cvw command" (Ctrl+z mode)
for these actions (say, sayto, page, page !, :, +, join, goto, idle, who).
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- The Unix client now provides
a textual command for phone; it is aslo available as a right mouse
menu option on a user in the user panel, online users list, and all users list.
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| Rooms |
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Users can now be admitted to a locked room from
the Online users list as well as the Room menu (Room->Admit user...).
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| Proxies |
- The Unix client now provides a menu item to
display the proxy window (View->Proxy).
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- The Unix client now provides a user interface
for facilitating proxy command entry. A drop down menu provides commands (with hot
keys) for say, emote, go, join and a toolbar provides buttons for displaying room
information, displaying a user panel, paste text to users in room, paste web reference to
users in room, and switch location with user.
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| AV Conferencing |
- The audio and video toolbar buttons stay depressed. To shut off audio and video, the user should click on these toolbar buttons again. If the user moves to a new room, and then audio or video buttons are depressed, a new audio and/or video tool will be launched at their final destination, regardless if the audio and/or video tool is currently running when the move is initiated.
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| Groups |
- The Unix client provides a command entry
style window for group communications (say privately, popup) accessible by right mouse
clicking on group name and selecting Say privately... or Send popup...
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| Preferences |
- The Unix client now provides the ability to
set different color highlight preferences for private communications
directed to the user and public communication directed to the user.
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| System |
- The Unix client no longer provides the ability to add
additional servers to the server list in the cvw.res file. Nor can users provide
additional servers to the server list in the Servers preferences.
The Unix client uses a "Server.cvw" file;
one file per server must be configured.
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- The Unix client no longer supports the ability to have parameters passed in to helper applications via the mime-db file.
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| User Interface |
- The All Users list in the Unix client
no longer displays user email address and phone as additional information.
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- Bug forms are no longer supported.
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- The Unix client no longer provides an advance
scrollback function (Ctrl+L) to advance the scrollback by one screen. The Page UP and Page Down keys can be used. The Home and End
keyboard buttons no longer position the scrollback at the beginning and end of scrollback
text.
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- The Group Manager in the Unix client can no longer be
displayed in icon format. Detailed view is the only view available.
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| Room Contents and Folders |
- The Room Contents, Folders, and Carrying
Folder in the Unix client can no longer be displayed in icon format. Detailed view is the only view available.
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| Preferences |
- The Unix client no longer provides a preference for
customizing display font settings for text input and output windows, menus and frames,
warning popup messages, and notify popup messages.
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- The Unix client no longer has the new window/frame option to Web Browser prefs.
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- The Unix client no longer provides the ability to set
color highlight preferences to color code regular expression matches that occur
in the scrollback.
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- The Unix client no longer provides preference settings
for selecting the default web browser (Netscape or Mosaic) in the Misc preferences.
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The Unix client no longer provides the ability to add
additional servers to the server list in the cvw.res file. Nor can users provide
is presented to the user upon login in the server connection dialog.
The Unix client now uses a
"Server.cvw" file, located in the cvw program directory, to provide server
settings. One file per server must be configured. Shortcuts to these files
can be placed on the user's desktop or in a program group in the user's Start menu.
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