The Gaim development team have released yet another Beta of their upcoming 2.0 version.

Among various under-the-hood changes, it now features:

  • Global Buddy Icon Selector - Instead of having to define an Avatar for each protocol you are now able to change your Avatar globally for all the protocols. To do so, you have to click on the icon besides the “status” button on your contact list and then just select the image file from your computer.
  • Better font-sizes (when people are using custom font definitions)
  • A bunch of shortcuts (listed below)

Shortcut List (I’m not actually sure if these shortcuts are new or not, but I guess that they make a nice addition for the article anyway):

  • Alt + a: Brings up a list of available actions. You can use this to open the accounts window,
    plugins window, preferences window etc.
  • Alt + w: Brings up a list of open windows to quickly switch between windows.
  • Alt + d: Dump the contents of the screen into “dump.html” (that’s how the screenshots in
    this page were created.)
  • Alt + m: This allows you to move a window.
  • Alt + r: This allows you to resize a window.
  • Alt + n: Switch to the next window.
  • Alt + p: Switch to the previous window.
  • Alt + c: Close the current window.
  • Alt + q: Quit.
  • Alt + ,: Move the position of the window one place to the left.
  • Alt + .: Move the position of the window one place to the right.
  • Alt + 1 2 …0: Jump to the 1st, 2nd … 10th window.
  • Ctrl + o: Bring up the menu for a window if it has one. (Note: currently only the buddylist
    has a menu).