New in Trillian 4.1: Better Status Control.
Our TODO list is usually pretty jam-packed with feature requests, some of which are very particular to individual taste and others that almost everyone agrees on! Some of the major new preferences and tweaks we’ve made to improve Trillian 4.1…
We’ve made a few critical changes to the behavior of the status system to make it a smoother and more intuitive experience.
- Away status will now wait. When you mark yourself “Away” using the default message, Trillian will not set your status to “Away Since…” right away. Instead, you’re given the chance to optionally input your own message and confirm with the enter key. You don’t have to worry about accidentally tweeting “Away Since…” as you’re typing a proper message.
Switch your status without switching your message. New menus have been added to let you easily switch your status and keep your status message.
Tweet right from contact list! When the Twitter plugin is set to match Trillian status, a character count will automatically appear when you set your status for all IM and social services.
Set status of individual connections. Individual connections within Trillian can now mark themselves to statuses separate from the “global” status. For example, if you’ve set ICQ status individually to “Free for Chat”, it will stay the same even when choosing “Away” from the global status menu. Trillian 4.1 will save these statuses between reconnects and restarts, and you can always request that a connection return to following global presence whenever you like.
- The ability to mark a status message as an “away” message has returned, giving you finer control over how Trillian behaves when you change to a particular status.
- Auto-responses are back, and can be enabled or disabled on a global basis.
Beyond the revamping of our status system, there are also a lot more miscellaneous new features and fixes. A few highlights before tomorrow’s unveiling of our new Twitter/Facebook updates:
The ability to “hide” windows. All windows can now show a hide button similar to the one that existed in the Trillian 3.x series. You can turn on this advanced feature directly from preferences.- Screen capture now works on secondary monitors.
- You can now disable buzz locally.
Stay tuned for our final preview including big updates to the Twitter and Facebook plugins! See you back here tomorrow! 
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 am
Since Trillian4 there is a function missing: WHERE is the function “Reconnect All”?!?!!??!
Simon
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Great work! Wanting 4.1 more every day!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
PERFECT. I have nothing more to say. Thanks a lot, guys. Great work!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@Simon, you just pick “ONLINE” it will connect all disconnected services. That option was not needed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
This update really is nice… love the screen capture working on secondary monitors and all the away system enhancements! Awesome. And people will be thrilled about the hide button option!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Really nice.
Hope to see individual status messages someday as well.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I hope that you have updated the API also too support this new features
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@Toff, that is what Identities are for… seems so silly to put everything in 1 program if you want everything different still.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hi all!!
First All… CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very very very good job!! I love Trillian (and more Astra).
I would really like to improve the Twitter plug in, in order to search, add and view friends and followers (like twhirl).
Regards from Chile (the last corner of the world)
Tavo
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
DiamondNRG
Well, basically, this is because for ICQ I might want to have status messages in Russian due to all my ICQ contacts are Russian-speaking, while use English for MSN, AIM and everything else.
Some users might want this for something else, I think it’d be useful.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
uh… I just don’t know what to say… YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
wow again fantastic work! I like it alot!
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Lots of cool stuff.
No mention of the return of away message auto-responses, though…. :\
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I can’t wait to have the auto-responses back!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
sdwolf, read again… point 6..
September 24th, 2009 at 11:08 am
how to download version 4.1??
September 24th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I need to combine my History from 4 years of using trillian on 5 different computers. Any help in the new version?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I just love this messanger!!!!!! Says upgrade 25.00 and dont know if thats a month? year? etc..Does anyone know? I want to buy it!
September 24th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Jill, it is $25 for a new pro user for a license for the lifetime of 4.X … meaning 4.1 and 4.2 etc would be free. And if you are reading upgrade, it should only be $10 for previous pro subscribers (even though its no longer subscription based).
September 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Why the heck would thay remove the “Automatic Reply” feature that one could use when your status is changed to Away…..I have a paid version of Trillian but I am starting to wonder now……..
September 25th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
@Scream81:
I stand corrected, thanks.
@Ivan:
Auto-responses will be back in 4.1, which will be a free upgrade from 4.0 if you’re a paid user. Their upgrade system is such that if you paid for 4.0, then you will get free upgrades to all 4.xx versions. You don’t have to worry about paying again until 5.0.
September 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
@Ivan .. because there were a lot of problems with how it worked and they needed to redo it and make it optional, so they had to pull the plug on that feature until 4.1 like SDWolf said.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am
@Luke … to fix your history on multiple computers issue, use this: http://zalbee.intricus.net/immerge/
September 28th, 2009 at 7:04 am
hello, wanna ask… how to change our icon image based on our own picture? i don’t see any option beside Trillian icon.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I agree. Where´s the Reconnect all function?!
Second things how about connecting to the meinvz network espacilly the “plauderkasten” function, would be more than a nice to have!
but great work done yet. thx
September 28th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Wonder if invis on gchat will work. Digsby has figured out how to make you invis on gchat.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
how can i add the hide button? where in preference?
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 am
never mind i found it…i’m idiot lol
October 4th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Wow Trillian web cam is horrible! Fuzzy and blurry.
October 12th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I also miss the famous “reconnect all” button! –> We need it!
October 19th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I wanted to know if you are adding Facebook CHAT to the program, as i did not see it.
Nimbuzz app on the iphone has this and the tweeting from the app is great, also, off tangent but would be cool a plugin that could allow you to post a blog post to wordpress would be impressive, even if it was for a charge, perhaps an app store where there are free plugins and paid plugins for more advanced features and attract users from ACTUAL clients, market share and profits that what i would do if i was working as cerulean studion find more ways to monitize the service and program plugins.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
The Reconnect All option (on right click) is a huge loss. Please bring it back…