The About tab copy was hand-written in English directly in About.cs,
which left the German users on the upstream Chat 2 wording for the
Hellion-specific blocks. The copy itself also leaned on em-dashes
mid-sentence and on a tone that could read as accusing Chat 2 of
GDPR violations, which was never the intent. This commit moves the
six About-tab sections (Maintainer, Why this fork exists, Built on
Chat 2, License, FFXIV disclaimer, Localization) into HellionStrings
and tightens the wording in both languages.
Tone change is the substantive part. Chat 2's full-history default
is now described as "the right one for most users" rather than a
problem the fork is fixing, and the webinterface removal is framed
as a focus mismatch — Chat 2's webinterface targets remote chat
access from a second device, this fork targets a smaller default
footprint, neither approach is wrong. The personal trigger for the
fork (two million logged messages over two years, mostly /say and
/yell from strangers) stays as it is honest context rather than
criticism.
The same neutralised wording is mirrored in three more places that
described the webinterface removal: the README "Was gegenüber
Chat 2 fehlt" block, the HellionChat.yaml description and changelog,
and the matching repo.json fields. The 0.2.0 changelog no longer
recites the upstream auth-flow internals; "different use case,
substantial rebuild, removed" is enough for users.
Em-dashes were also removed from two body strings that previously
used them as comma replacements (Privacy filter storage-only help
and the retention default description). Heading-level dashes
("Hellion Chat — Welcome", "Export (GDPR Art. 15 — right of
access)") stay because dashes are appropriate as separators in
titles.
The Theme description was already inaccurate — it still talked
about slate-violet tabs and amber highlights even though the brand
sweep moved everything onto Arctic Cyan plus Ember Orange. Updated
to describe the current palette honestly.
Project version goes from 0.1.2 to 0.2.0 — a minor bump rather than a
patch because the webinterface removal is a behavioural change for
anyone who relied on it. csproj, plugin manifest yaml and the
custom-repo repo.json are all moved over together so the Dalamud
plugin list, the manifest and the download links agree.
The yaml description picks up a leading paragraph that names the
removal up front; pre-installation users see it in the Dalamud
plugin browser. Both yaml and repo.json gain a 0.2.0 changelog block
that explains the audit context, lists every concrete code change
and reassures that the privacy filter, retention sweep, first-run
wizard and exporter are untouched. Older changelog entries are
preserved in chronological order behind it.
repo.json AssemblyVersion and TestingAssemblyVersion go to 0.2.0.0
and the three download links point at v0.2.0/latest.zip; the tag
itself is created by hand alongside the GitHub release.
Build (Release) produces ChatTwo/bin/Release/HellionChat/latest.zip
(~17 MB) and HellionChat.json with no warnings.
Manifest moves to 0.1.2.0 so existing testers get an in-place
update offer once the matching GitHub release is published.
Changes since 0.1.1 are surface and packaging:
- The inherited About tab now reflects the fork: Hellion Online
Media as maintainer with hellion-media.de as the contact
channel, EUPL-1.2 dual-copyright statement, FINAL FANTASY XIV
SQUARE ENIX disclaimer, explicit acknowledgment of Chat 2 by
Infi & Anna as the upstream foundation, and the original
ChatTwo translator list relabelled as upstream Crowdin
contributors so it isn't mistaken for Hellion translators.
- Cherry-picked the upstream DBViewer UI improvements
(auto-scroll-reset on page change, localized tooltips on the
date reset, folder export, export-running notifications and
the pagination arrows).
- README rewritten in the Hellion project style: German prose,
tech-stack table, architecture tree, database column list, a
proper migration guide for users coming from Chat 2 (with
Linux and Windows manual recovery commands), upstream-sync
workflow notes for cherry-picks, project-status checklist
separating bootstrap-done from phase-2-open work, and the
Hellion Online Media footer.
- repo.json regenerated to point at the v0.1.2 GitHub release
asset URL.
Bundle changelog summarises the same so testers see the new
content in their plugin list before they pull the update.
Manifest version moves to 0.1.1.0 so Dalamud offers existing
testers an in-place update once the new release is published.
Description rewritten to lead with the "built on top of Chat 2"
framing — every upstream feature, command and shortcut still
works identically — and to position the privacy additions as
alignment with modern EU, US and Japanese data-protection
expectations rather than citing specific paragraphs.
Punchline becomes "Chat 2 with privacy controls aligned to EU,
US and JP rules" so the plugin-list one-liner reflects what's
actually different rather than just calling itself a fork.
Changelog entry for 0.1.1 covers the three changes since 0.1.0:
icon now in the bundle (DalamudPackager override), icon resized
to 256×256, migration hardened with per-file try/catch and a
warning notification when files are locked, plus the README
troubleshooting section.
repo.json regenerated to 0.1.1.0 with the v0.1.1 release asset
URL so the custom-repo manifest matches what GitHub will serve.
Reset the version line out of the inherited Chat 2 1.35.x range
into a Hellion-specific track that starts at 0.1.0 to make the
bootstrap status visible to anyone reading the Dalamud plugin
list. The yaml changelog now lays out the full feature set added
on top of Chat 2 (privacy filter, retention, cleanup, export,
wizard, theme, localization) and explicitly calls out the upstream
1.35.3 base under EUPL-1.2.
Switch the assembly name to HellionChat so Dalamud uses
pluginConfigs/HellionChat for our config file and database
directory, instead of sharing those locations with the upstream
Chat 2 plugin. Code namespace stays ChatTwo.* so upstream
cherry-picks apply cleanly.
Rename the DalamudPackager manifest to HellionChat.yaml with
fork-specific name, author, repo URL, description, tags and
changelog. Plugin.PluginName becomes "Hellion Chat".
Add a one-shot migration in the plugin constructor that runs
before GetPluginConfig: if pluginConfigs/ChatTwo.json or the
ChatTwo/ directory exist and our equivalents don't, move them
into the HellionChat layout. Idempotent: only fires on the first
load where legacy paths are present and ours are not.
JonKazama-Hellion