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IRC Chatter

IRC Chatter is a lightweight, touch-friendly IRC client aimed at MeeGo and Harmattan. IRC Chatter is based on Qt, QML, and its backend uses libcommuni, a Qt-based IRC client library.

IRC Chatter is free and open source software licensed under the terms of GPLv2+. (Some parts are licensed under LGPL.)

Here you can find some info about IRC Chatter.

Introduction

At the right you can see the user interface of IRC Chatter. Click on the pic to make it larger. (No, we do not own a Nokia N9, this is just screenshot put on an N9, made by Joppu.)

Questions?

See you at #irc-chatter on Freenode!

About the author: see my User page
Co-author: Hiemanshu Sharma
Author of the icon: Johannes Siipola (aka Joppu)

Hacking on IRC Chatter

Useful links

IRC Chatter repo in Gitorious
- Shortended URL is http://bit.ly/ircchattercode
- Feel free to clone it and send me merge a request if you've implemented something!
Communi's home page
Communi's documentation

Building

The usual 'qmake' and 'make' are enough to build it
Use 'dpkg-buildpackage' to build the package for Harmattan
- You can add qmake flags to the package build via the QMAKEFLAGS environment variable
Building pre-release versions or snapshots
- Please add DEFINES+=PRERELEASE to the qmake configuration
  - This will cause it to display in the about box that it's an unstable build
  - Use eg. 'QMAKEFLAGS=DEFINES+=PRERELEASE dpkg-buildpackage' to build the package for Harmattan

Releases

(Shortened URL for this part is http://bit.ly/getircchatter)

Latest version

04 March, 2012: 'v0.2.92' has been released! You only need to download this single package, no dependencies needed.

Bugs, feature requests

Please use the Nemo bugzilla to report them
- File your bug under the "IRC client" category

Platform support

The app is currently working on Harmattan and it's also the official IRC client of Nemo Mobile

Retrieved from "http://wiki.meego.com/IRC_Chatter"

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 [[Image:Irc-chatter-harmattan-icon.png|80px|thumb|Icon]]
-[[Image:irc-chatter-n9.jpg|550px|thumb|User interface]]
+<!-- TODO: update screenshot [[Image:irc-chatter-n9.jpg|550px|thumb|User interface]] -->
 = IRC Chatter =
-IRC Chatter is a lightweight, touch-friendly IRC client aimed at MeeGo and Harmattan. IRC Chatter is based on Qt, QML, and its backend uses libircclient-qt.
+IRC Chatter is a lightweight, touch-friendly IRC client aimed at MeeGo and Harmattan. IRC Chatter is based on Qt, QML, and its backend uses libcommuni, a Qt-based IRC client library.
 IRC Chatter is free and open source software licensed under the terms of GPLv2+. (Some parts are licensed under LGPL.)
-Here you can find some info about IRC Chatter. If you wish for a new feature, add it to the [[User:Venemo/IRC_Chatter#Wish_list|Wish list]]!
+Here you can find some info about IRC Chatter.
 == Introduction ==
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 See you at '''#irc-chatter''' on [http://freenode.net/ Freenode]!
-* ''About the author: see my [[User:Venemo|User page]] and my [[User:Venemo/HarmattanPlans|Plans for Harmattan]]''
+* ''About the author: see my [[User:Venemo|User page]]
 * Co-author: Hiemanshu Sharma
 * Author of the icon: Johannes Siipola (aka Joppu)
-=== Useful links for hacking ===
+=== Hacking on IRC Chatter ===
+==== Useful links ====
 * [https://gitorious.org/colorful-apps/irc-chatter IRC Chatter repo in Gitorious]
 ** Shortended URL is [http://bit.ly/ircchattercode http://bit.ly/ircchattercode]
 ** ''Feel free to clone it and send me merge a request if you've implemented something!''
-* [https://bitbucket.org/jpnurmi/libircclient-qt/wiki/Home LibIrcClient-Qt home page]
+* [http://communi.github.com/ Communi's home page]
-* [http://jpnurmi.kapsi.fi/libircclient-qt/doc/latest/annotated.html LibIrcClient-Qt documentation]
+* [http://communi.github.com/doc/1.0/annotated.html Communi's documentation]
+==== Building ====
+* The usual 'qmake' and 'make' are enough to build it
+* Use 'dpkg-buildpackage' to build the package for Harmattan
+** You can add qmake flags to the package build via the QMAKEFLAGS environment variable
+* Building pre-release versions or snapshots
+** Please add DEFINES+=PRERELEASE to the qmake configuration
+*** This will cause it to display in the about box that it's an unstable build
+*** Use eg. 'QMAKEFLAGS=DEFINES+=PRERELEASE dpkg-buildpackage' to build the package for Harmattan
 == Releases ==
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 (Shortened URL for this part is [http://bit.ly/getircchatter http://bit.ly/getircchatter])
-* '''15 August, 2011:''' 'v0.1' has been released! First, you need [http://sources.venemo.net/harmattan/libircclient-qt_0.5.0.9_armel.deb the Harmattan package for libircclient-qt], then [http://sources.venemo.net/harmattan/irc-chatter_0.1.0_armel.deb download the app from this link].
+==== Latest version ====
-* '''16 August, 2011:''' 'v0.1.1' has been released! First, you need [http://sources.venemo.net/harmattan/libircclient-qt_0.5.0.9_armel.deb the Harmattan package for libircclient-qt], then [http://sources.venemo.net/harmattan/irc-chatter_0.1.1_armel.deb download the app from this link].
-* Snapshot versions (0.0.YYYYMMDD) are built from time to time into rzr's community repo check http://rzr.online.fr/q/harmattan
-== Features ==
-=== Coming soon™ ===
-* Ability to connect to multiple IRC servers
-* Autocompletion order based on last message order
-* Highlighting channel names in messages
-* Making user names clickable in the chat text area
-* And the obvious
-** Fixing known issues... ;)
-** Implementing the wish list ;)
-* ...etc
-=== Wish list ===
-(Shortened URL for this part is [http://bit.ly/ircchatterwishlist http://bit.ly/ircchatterwishlist])
-Is there a feature you want? Put it on our wishlist!
-* Server login password support '''✓'''
-** ''Done in v0.1''
-* Autojoining on start-up to defined channels '''✓'''
-** ''Done in v0.1''
-* Automatic URL parsing to visualise thumbnails or url clicker buttons (finger friendly) etc
-* Some sort of bouncer support - perhaps using the quassel backend? Maybe another may suit better.
-** ''Talk is underway with '''special''', perhaps he will create a Quassel backend for us.''
-* Click-hold on a channel name could bring up channel options.
-** Aliasing channels - like in pidgin. For example, my pidgin sidebar reads: '''OSM HRM ME Par HOS MD ED Ma TP OM /\/ HA NO'''
-** Turn logging on/off
-** Autojoin settings, or maybe in the future even more.
-** Click nick to start writing message to them (i.e I click on some message in the chat from "foo" and it opens the vkb with foo:)
-* support: XmpP through biltbee or minbif/ bip : http://rzr.online.fr/q/irc --[[User:Rzr|Rzr]] 12:59, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
-* support: hostname:port --[[User:Rzr|Rzr]] 12:59, 15 August 2011 (UTC)  '''✓'''
-** ''Done in v0.1.1''
-* support: execute macro on connect ie : /msg nickserv identify password or something else --[[User:Rzr|Rzr]] 12:59, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
-<!-- Leave this at the bottom of the wishlist so that other people feel encouraged to add their own -->
-* '''''Your feature idea here!'''''
-=== Features already there ===
-* Decent and shiny GUI
-* Usable in portrait mode too (with virtual keyboard)
-* Join/part channels and query/close users
-* You can select text and open links
-* Supported commands
-** /join (or /j)
-** /part (or /p)
-** /query (or /q)
-** /msg (or /m)
-** /quit
-** /close
-** /me
-** /nick
-** /topic (but no topic changing)
-** ''others are coming!''
-* Highlighting
-** Channels that have new messages are blue
-** If they have new messages addressed to you, they are red
-* Settable server port
-* SSL ability
-=== Known issues, limitations ===
+* '''04 March, 2012:''' 'v0.2.92' has been released! You only need [http://venemo.fedorapeople.org/harmattan/irc-chatter_0.2.92_armel.deb to download this single package], no dependencies needed.
-Work is being done to eliminate these.
+== Bugs, feature requests ==
-ETA: soon™
-Issues that are striked out have been fixed.
-* <del>Lacking an appropriate configuration GUI, currently the client is hardcoded to connect to the [http://freenode.net Freenode] network with the nickname "Your_Nick_Here"</del>
+* Please use the [http://bit.ly/nemoappsbugs Nemo bugzilla] to report them
-** ''A nice page is added that appears on applaunch and solves this.'' You can still only connect to one server at a time though.
+** File your bug under the "IRC client" category
-* Settings GUI is not working at all
-** ''It has been removed from v0.1, will be added to a later version.''
-* Disconnections are not detected
-* Can't reconnect after disconnect
-* <del>Can't display CTCP actions (/me)</del>
-* '''Some''' /commands don't work yet
-* <del>Parting a channel or closing a query MAY result in a segfault</del>
-* <del>Autoscrolling issues when opening/hiding VKB or chaning orientation</del>
-* <del>Autoscrolling fails when last message is longer than 1 line</del>
-* <del>No text selection</del>
-* <del>Links not highlighted</del>
-* <del>Topic is not displayed</del>
-* <del>Autocompletion issues</del>
-* Doesn't handle mode changes
-* "Join on connect" in the channel connection window doesn't work
-* Focus textbox on entering channel, so it doesn't have to be done explicitly.
-* Channel topic changes don't appear
-* Joining channels that lead to ##overflow when not identified pops up a spurious error message "[ERROR] gsE" (in red). (##electronics for example) It works as expected other than the error though
-* <del>With v0.1 after ~10h uptime in busy channels, it's using ~100M of RAM, and a total of 1h CPU</del> - ''Fixed in v0.1.1''
-** ''Probably this is thanks to the non-optimized way how the TextArea component works.''
-** Further investigation on v0.1.1
-*** The app uses ~80M at startup (RSS), but only ~27M (USS) is really the app
-*** After connecting to server, USS is ~30M
-*** After 6 hours of uptime in the default channels, the USS value went up to ~35M and the RSS to ~95M. Conclusion is that most of the memory that 'top' or 'htop' show are in fact the Qt libraries.
-*** '''According to SpeedEvil, after running v0.1.1 for 12 hours the USS value is still 35M and the app used only 45 seconds of CPU time!'''
-** Conclusions
-*** Reason for the high CPU usage in v0.1 was the fact that it switches to software rasterizer when the app is in background '''AND''' that TextArea's rendering algorithm is '''''very''''' ineffective when it contains very long texts. Don't leave more than a few hundred lines in a TextArea, because it renders itself always, even the parts which are clipped by a Flickable
-*** [https://gitorious.org/colorful-apps/irc-chatter/commit/ec2e235914c2680235e9781c1947a6fcfb71638c This commit did the trick]
-* ...?
 == Platform support ==
-The app is currently working on '''Harmattan''' (that is the primary target for now). When the app is functional, we are planning to port it to 'vanilla' MeeGo and possibly other platforms that support qt-components.
+The app is currently working on '''Harmattan''' and it's also the official IRC client of [http://nemomobile.org Nemo Mobile]

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IRC Chatter

Introduction

Questions?

Hacking on IRC Chatter

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Releases

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