Docs folder cleanup (#2366)

* delete accelerator.keys.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Keyboard-shortcuts

* delete INSTALL and doc/INSTALL.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/installation

* delete doc/firefox.hack.txt

should no longer be needed

* delete doc/themes.howto.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/tutorials

* delete doc/INSTALL-MacOS.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Compiling-KVIrc-from-git-on-macOS-Sierra

* add another VS file to .gitignore

* delete doc/FAQ

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/FAQ

* delete old TODOs

content should be, if relevant, in issues

* delete doc/addon.howto.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Addons

* delete doc/scripting.faq.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/tutorials

* delete translations.howto.txt and translations.spanish.notes.txt

content should be at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Updating-KVIrc's-translations

* delete win32_run_cmake.bat

outdated?

* adjust CMakeLists.txt for removed files

* delete Windows compilation instructions

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Compiling-KVIrc-on-Windows

* delete doc/hackers.guide.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/The-Source-Tree

* delete doc/ui-style-tips.txt

content is at https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Contributing-code-to-KVIrc's-repositories

* adjust README to doc changes

* move main license file to root

* adjust mentions of copyright files

* revert status badges back from shields.io

shields.io is overloaded all the time so the badges never display

* change cmake syntax

* restore the about license text to its original glory and install the amip license only on windows

* update GPL2 from the GNU website

* change the installer to show ABOUT-LICENSE as well

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+29.12.2017: Release 5.0.0-beta1

+###############################################################################

+

+After some years and a couple of alpha releases we have a beta.

+Well.. it's marked "beta" but you'll probably find it pretty much stable.

+Several people have worked on the codebase and ultimately on this release.

+Many of them hang daily around #kvirc@Freenode. Come and say hi! :)

+

+Have fun!

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+01.07.2012: Release 4.2.0 "Equilibrium"

+###############################################################################

+

+Finally, a new major milestone version of KVIrc is released!

+

+Two years has passed since the original KVIrc 4 release. While the original

+4.0 code was put in maintenance mode, a lot of time has been dedicated to merge

+new features inside KVIrc. Today we present the result of this development.

+

+Support for new os/architectures:

+ - Mac OSX support, clang support

+ - 64-bit Windows support

+ - improved FreeBSD integration

+ - even an esperimental OS/2 patch is available

+

+More scripting power:

+ - the interface to the popup subsystem has been rewritten: the new popup module

+ - a new interface to the userlist: the userlist module

+ - a new webView class that embeds a webkit

+ - improved SQL classes

+ - a new trayicon KVS class

+ - added a default script manager to restore default scripts without overwriting

+   custom user scripts

+ - lots of new functions: $file.time(), $insideAlias(), $log.export(),

+   $file.diskspace(), $isBot(), $gender(), $context.connectionStartTime,

+   $context.lastMessageTime, $listtimers(), $window.isDocked, $aliasBody(),

+   $file.readBytes(), $file.writeBytes(), window.savePropertiesAsDefault,

+   $chan.modeParam(), ...

+ - new certificate related functions: $dcc.getSSLCertInfo(), $certificate(),

+   $str.evpSign(), $str.evpVerify()

+

+A lot of new misc features:

+ - a module to support FiSH irc encryption

+ - smart logging paths using KVS

+ - medialayer support: VLC, Spotify, Totem, Clementine, ...

+ - a rewritten log viewer module

+ - dynamic support for custom channel modes

+

+As usual, we'd like to thank all the people supporting KVIrc development and its

+userbase. A big hug to the resident users of #kvirc@Freenode for their continuous

+effort on bridging the gap between developers and users.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+19.03.2011: Release 4.0.4 "Insomnia"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go again: 4.0.4 is ready.

+

+This is mainly a bugfix release.

+

+Configuration from existing 4.0.0/4.0.2 installations will be completely preserved

+and everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

+

+As usual, the bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack

+system available at https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Tomasz Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+01.08.2010: Release 4.0.2 "Insomnia"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go again: 4.0.2 is ready.

+

+This is mainly a bugfix release. 4.0.0 went public after a very long delay and

+even if we have tested it thoroughly some problems still managed to escape our

+attention. There are fixes for several minor annoyances and the very important

+patch for a security issue related to DCC handshakes (secunia advisory SA40727)

+

+Configuration from existing 4.0.0 installations will be completely preserved

+and everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

+

+As usual, the bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack

+system available at https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Tomasz Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+27.06.2010: Release 4.0.0 "Insomnia"

+###############################################################################

+

+And again, after more than one year, we're back with a new release.

+

+The major version increment from 3 to 4 reflects a big milestone reached by the

+project: the port to Qt4 has been officially completed. This required a lot of

+code to be rewritten and I must say that we have suffered it a bit. But now

+it's done and Qt4 is a great framework to base KVIrc on, far better than Qt3.

+

+Notable new features of this release include:

+

+- Definitive and stable port to the Qt4 libraries

+- A brand new build system based on CMake (no more ./configure)

+- Better support for server tecnologies: CAPS, STARTTLS, SASL, irc services...

+- A new UPnP module to control and remotely map your router ports for DCC

+- A totally rewritten MDI subsystem, with the look and feel of your OS

+- A nice graphical addon packager

+- A visual class editor for object oriented scripting

+- A rewritten iograph module to check your bandwidth usage

+- Support for animated avatars

+- Ability to get other user's avatars/information without the need to

+  CTCP the whole channel

+- Support for DBus inter-process communication

+- Support for the MPRIS media player control and info reporting

+- Support for Phonon direct media playback

+- Improved platform compatibility for KDE4, MacOSX, Seven etc...

+- A lot of new options to better customize your client

+- A lot of new KVS commands and functions for your scripting needs

+- Tons of bug fixes, more than 500 only from the bugtracker

+- A better documentation of the code for those who like to give a look at it.

+- Months of testing and fixing to assure you an optimal IRC experience ;)

+_ ...

+

+Again a lot of people contributed to this release. It would be simply unfair

+not to mention the huge development effort made by Elvio Basello (HelLViS69),

+Fabio Bas (CtrlAltCa) and Alessandro Carbone (Noldor). Without their hard work

+KVIrc 4.0.0 wouldn't be possible.

+

+Other kudos go to Markus Rennings (mren), Kai Wasserbäch (Curan),

+Jan Wagner (spy6), Claudia Mongini (etherea), Jose (Zé) Melo (mmodem),

+Alexey Uzhva (alexey), Robert Förster (Dessa), ambossarm, TheXception,

+Voker57, Thomas Kalla, bugslayer, Aeriana, Desowin and obviously to everyone

+on #kvirc@freenode who provided testing and support.

+

+Well... it's time to play with it.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+###############################################################################

+General notes for the 4.0.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client

+###############################################################################

+

+- Installation

+

+The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution

+are in the INSTALL file.

+

+The Windows version needs no installation: you just need to run the

+installer executable and follow the proposed steps.

+

+Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory.

+

+- Reporting problems

+

+You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features,

+and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author.

+Anyway, before reporting a bug, ask yourself if it can be caused

+by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries

+and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour.

+Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!).

+

+When you encounter a problem please read the FAQ that is found

+in the distribution and also take a look at http://www.kvirc.net

+for a more recent version. If nothing helps to solve your problem

+then you might consider issuing a bug report.

+

+The best way to report a bug is to use the bugtrack system at

+https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/issues/. Another way is to subscribe

+to the kvirc mailing list (see http://www.kvirc.net for instructions)

+and report the problem there. In both cases your bug report

+should be written in english and should contain most information

+possible about the problem. If you have encountered a crash

+on an unix platform you should include a gdb backtrace (stack dump).

+The more gdb info you send, the biggest is the possibility for us

+to find the problem and maybe a solution. There is a FAQ entry

+that explains how to produce a suitable gdb backtrace.

+If you can't obtain a gdb backtrace (maybe because you're on

+a platform where gdb is not available) or if the problem

+is not related to a program crash then you should include

+a detailed procedure that leads to the manifestation of your problem.

+You should always include a short description of the platform you

+are running on: the operating system, the cpu (if not an x86),

+the version of the Qt library and the KDE environment (if relevant).

+You should also mention the relevant version of KVIrc and where

+you got it from (svn, kvirc site, other sites).

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+###############################################################################

+# Historic entries : just for the curious

+###############################################################################

+

+15 October 2008: Release 3.4.2 "Shiny"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go with another release :)

+

+In march we said that 3.4.0 was the last release of the 3.* but we've found

+that a little update wasn't going to hurt while the mainstream 4.* is being

+worked out. Technically this is a mainly bugfix release: there are no major

+new features inside. Some annoying 3.4.0 bugs were wiped out, some docs were

+updated and we'll hopefully have a more stable windows binary.

+

+If you're using 3.4.0 (or some older version) then you're strongly encouraged

+to upgrade.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+

+

+23.03.2008: Release 3.4.0 "Virgo"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go with another release :)

+

+This one took a very long time but, well, finally it's here.

+

+Notable new features of this release include:

+

+	- improved themeing support

+	- better desktop integration

+	- nicer support for many different IRC servers

+	- a totally revised option layout

+	- basic support for script "addons"

+	- improved help subsystem

+	- new nice statusbar applets

+	- improved scripting engine

+	- improved windows and macosx support

+	- ....

+

+There is also a lot of small new details that you will

+find out by yourself while playing around and finally

+we obviously also have a huge number of bugfixes.

+

+This will be the last stable release of the 3.* series and also the last

+one using Qt3. From now on we'll be working on major version 4 and

+switching completely to Qt4. This release actually contains a preliminary

+Qt4 support and if you feel brave you might test it by passing

+the "hidden" --enable-qt swtich to configure.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+

+

+22.02.2005: Release 3.2.0 "Realia"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go again: 3.2.0 is out!

+

+The long road to stability has reached an important milestone. The previous

+releases of the 3.* series were the first ones after a huge codebase rewrite.

+3.2.0 is a result of several months of testing, debugging and improving.

+You will surely find it more stable, fast and user friendly.

+

+The old scripting toolbars have been replaced by the new "action" based

+approach. Besides the scripting flexibility of the actions we have also

+gained "drag & drop" toolbar editing. Just select "Settings -> Toolbars

+-> Customize" from the menu and drag your favorite actions (buttons!) to the

+toolbars you wish. You can obviously create new toolbars on the fly and destroy

+old ones. There is a set of builtin actions and new ones can be added

+by the means of the action editor (another new feature) accessible from

+the Scripting menu. Play with it :)

+

+The UNICODE support has been improved yet more. Now you can set global,

+per-network, per-server and per-window encodings! There is also a new

+set of "smart" encoding engines that first try to decode the text as UTF8

+and in case of failure fallback to your standard encoding.

+

+The translators did a really good (and hard) job: we actually have KVIrc

+translated in 14 languages. I'm really happy about that.

+

+There is a new nice Instant-Messager-like notifier window that pops up when

+a query message arrives and KVIrc is not the active application. Yes,

+you can disable it, but I'm sure you will not. The notifier is also fully

+scriptable and we're working on a simple skinning engine for it.

+

+We also have perl support: now you can use perl from KVS and

+KVS from perl. The engine is still quite essential but with some hacking

+you can obtain really good results from it.

+

+The small IRC-Context-Display has been removed from the toolbar and has been

+replaced by a real status bar that is capable of displaying the same

+information in a much cleaner way. The IRC-Context-Display is still

+available as an action so you can just drag it back in its place

+and hide the status bar to return to the previous release configuration.

+The statusbar also supports applets that can be added/dragged/removed by the

+means of the mouse: just try the right click.

+

+The scripting engine has been improved and there are several new object

+classes. An interesting new feature here is the $tr() function that allows

+your scripts to be translated with the standard gettext mechanism. The

+widely requested DCOP communication function has been implemented too.

+

+Out-of-the-box mircryption support has been added. The KVIrc's mircryption

+engine supports the standard ECB mode and the new CBC mode

+

+The DCC transfers have been improved and seveal related bugs have been

+fixed. It is also possible to limit the bandwidth for each transfer.

+

+There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier

+and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and

+other can be found by exploring the user interface.

+

+The small one-man-project has grown to the level of a small community.

+People from around the world have joined our development efforts and are

+constantly donating their time, eyes and bandwidth in order to make KVIrc

+a really good IRC client. Besides of simply giving you a free (as in freedom!)

+and nice program for chatting, they are giving you the great opportunity to see

+what's behind the scenes: you have the source code for the whole application.

+In practical terms this means more or less 300.000 lines of tested, debugged and

+commented C++ code, several perl scripts, dozens of makefiles and all the means

+that you need to produce a working KVIrc executable on all the supported platforms.

+There is a lot of knowledge (some people call it "technology" because it sells better)

+inside, ready to be acquired by an attentive reader. Don't forget that the freedom of

+building your own executable from the sources gives you the opportunity

+of verifying the source itself: for example you might be interested in verifying

+that KVIrc will not run any malware code on your machine nor will collect

+your private data and sell it to someone while you're happily chatting with a friend.

+We call it freedom, please respect it :)

+

+Our community is contantly growing and this release was possible thanks to the

+contribution of really many people. There are new mighty developers, new addicted

+fans and we have seen a lot of new users. The list of the major contributors

+can be found on the KVIrc site, in the about dialog and all around the sources.

+If you want to meet them please join the #kvirc channel on your favorite

+IRC network or subscribe to our mailing list.

+

+Ah, I was going to forget it: you might have noticed that there is

+a version bump from 3.0.1 to 3.2.0. It's a typo that we arbitrairly

+decided not to fix :)

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+

+

+31.05.2004: Release 3.0.1 "System Virtue"

+###############################################################################

+

+Here we go again: 3.0.1 is out!

+

+3.0.1 is mainly a bugfix release. 3.0.0 was the first public release

+after long time and even if we have tested it for a very long time

+some bugs didn't miss to jump out. 3.0.1 contains the fixes for these

+problems and adds some minor functionality. The detailed list of

+changes is in the ChangeLog file.

+

+The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available

+at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+

+17.04.2004: Release 3.0.0 "Awakening"

+###############################################################################

+

+After a couple of years from the last stable release, here we go again :)

+

+Since the 2.* releases the KVIrc source code has been almost completely

+rewritten. The major differences are summarized in the following list:

+

+	- Multiserver: you can have multiple IRC connections in a single window

+	- IPV6 support, also for DCC transfers

+	- SSL support (also over IPV6)

+	- UNICODE support for the user interface

+	- Better scripting language

+	- A basic Theme Engine

+

+The first major goal of the rewrite was "user-friendliness": you should be

+able to start an IRC session by selecting a server and clicking "Connect Now"

+just after the installation.

+The second major goal was "extreme-flexibility": you can customize the way KVIrc

+looks and the scripting language allows you to implement complex responses

+to IRC generated events.

+

+There is a lot of minor new features that will make your IRC sessions funnier

+and more exciting: some of them are described in the ChangeLog file and

+other can be found by exploring the user interface.

+

+This release was possible thanks to the contribution of many people.

+The list includes but is not limited to: Triskelios, Jan Wagner (spion),

+Juanjo Alvarez (Kane), Andrea Parrella (Yap), Luk De Ketelaere (Balboy),

+Sara D'Alia (Sbrokka), Ted Podgurski (alch3m1st), Ciro Guariglia (d3vah),

+Christoph Thielecke (Crissi), Eva Schaller (Penny), Niklas Luer�en (Tequila)

+Olle Hallnas (Crocodile), Francesco Meloni (Princo), Alessandro Rossini (Aronnax),

+Alex Grijalba Martinez (SuD), SuperbepS, Thilo Schulz (Thilo), Dworf,

+Jorma Tuomainen (Wiza), Michele Pinassi (O-Zone), Paolo Sammicheli (XDatap1),

+Ahinu, xevilstar, The Siena Linux Users Group, cyco & samweis,

+The Firenze Linux Users Group, all the subscribers of the KVIrc public mailing

+list and finally all the people from #kvirc on IRCNet and Freenode.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+###############################################################################

+General notes for the 3.0.0 release of the KVIrc IRC client

+###############################################################################

+

+- Installation

+

+The detailed installation instructions for the unix source distribution

+are in the INSTALL file.

+

+The Windows version needs no installation: just unzip the archive in

+a suitable directory (such as C:\Program Files\) and run kvirc.exe from there.

+

+Other documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory.

+

+- Reporting problems

+

+In this release, the changes are so huge that it was not possible

+to test them in all the possible conditions. A 'normal' irc session

+should give you no problems.

+You are encouraged to "mess" with all the KVIrc options and features,

+and to report bugs and misbehaviours to the author.

+Anyway, before reporting a bug, ask yourself if it can be caused

+by some other part of your system: KVIrc uses many external libraries

+and (as all programs) relies on a correct system behaviour.

+Make sure that the libraries you use are the correct ones (!!!).

+

+- Contents of a good bug report:

+

+- A gdb backtrace in case of a segfault.

+	The more gdb info you send, the biggest is the possibility

+	for me to find the problem and maybe a solution.

+- A detailed description (read : procedure) to reproduce the bug

+	Obviously if possible...

+- All information on your system that you think that may be

+	related to KVIrc and to the problem itself.

+

+To enable the gdb debugging you must compile kvirc with

+the --enable-debug configure option.

+

+

+

+03.01.2003: Release 3.0.0 beta2

+###############################################################################

+

+

+Here we go again!

+Yes, this is still called "beta", but it should be stable on most machines.

+We're simply still missing some features planned for the final 3.0.0.

+

+Beta2 is being released as a source package.

+Binary packages (for windows and other platforms) might be available soon

+so check out the download section once in a while.

+

+90% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there are

+many new things to play with.

+

+There is a preliminary UNICODE port: KVIrc UI starts to "speak" foreign (non Latin1) based languages.

+IRC character set mapping has been implemented (with 8 commonly used codepages for now).

+You should be able to use the Euro sign (ISO-8859-15), write Cyrillic (KOI-8-R, CP-1251, ISO-8859-5),

+Greek (ISO-8859-7) and even use ideograms with the UTF-8 encoding.

+Character mapping selection is window based thus you should be able to write Cyrillic on #russian,

+Greek on #athens and write plain English on #kvirc in the same IRC session.

+

+Some modules have been removed from the main distribution. This is because the source

+tree has been growing too much: we are removing the non-strictly-necessary features

+and we will release them as separate packages.

+

+On the CVS you can already find the "nap" module that allows chatting (no file sharing yet)

+on OpenNap networks.

+

+The scriptcenter dialog has been split in smaller "pieces" and a GUI toolbar editor has been added.

+

+Finally there are tons of bugfixes and improvements: just play with it :)

+

+The bugs for this release should be reported by using the bugtrack system available

+at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net.

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+###############################################################################

+

+

+

+25.06.2002

+###############################################################################

+

+3.0.0 beta1 (Codename: "Eve's Avatar")

+

+This release is "floating around" since a couple of months...

+Well... finally... here we go :)

+This is not stable yet, but many people use it and we get a really small number of

+critical reports: this means that you probably can use it for your daily chatting.

+

+Beta1 is being released as a source package and a binary distro for the windows platform.

+Binary packages for other platforms might be available soon so check out the download section once in a while.

+

+If you had previous KVIrc installations and you experience problems (missing menus for example)

+try to remove (or better just rename) the old local configuration directory (locaed

+in your home dir probably) and to restart KVIrc.

+

+80% of the 2.* branch features have been already re-implemented and there is a whole

+bunch of new things to play with. One of the greates "ChangeLog" entries is the preliminary

+SSL support that works for IRC and DCC CHAT (both over IPv4 and IPv6).

+CTCP PAGE support has been added and there were some major changes to the variable

+management in the scripting language (added "real" array support and changed the syntax for the dictionaries).

+Those of you that like colors can now enable the icon-like display of emoticons

+and play with icons in the text sent through the server (a new escape code).

+The documentation has been reworked a little bit more, there are some new modules and

+a lot of new options to try.

+

+The windows version is not completely in sync with the linux one thus you might find

+that it lacks some features (mainly advanced scripting language, sound support etc...).

+We hope to have a completely synchronized versions on both platforms for the time

+of 3.0.0 final.

+

+The bugs for this release should be reported by using our new shiny bugtrack system available

+at http://bugtrack.kvirc.omnikron.net.

+

+Well..

+That's all folks!

+

+Have fun :)

+Szymon Stefanek and The KVIrc Development Team

+

+###############################################################################
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