Revision as of 20:01, 13 August 2011

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.

Here you can find some info about IRC Chatter. If you wish for a new feature, add it to the Wish list!

Introduction

Here is the user interface of IRC Chatter:

(No, I do not own a Nokia N9, this is just a screenshot gimped over a pic from a random review site.)

Questions?

See you at #irc-chatter on Freenode!

• About the author: see my User page and my Plans for Harmattan

Useful links for hacking

• IRC Chatter repo in Gitorious
  • Feel free to clone it and send me merge a request if you've implemented something!
• LibIrcClient-Qt home page
• LibIrcClient-Qt documentation

Features

Coming soon™

• Ability to connect to multiple IRC servers
• Packaging, icon, .desktop file
• Autocompletion order based on last message order
• Fixing of known issues... ;)
• ...etc

Wish list

Is there a feature you want? Put it on our wishlist!

• automatic url parsing to visualise thumbnails or url clicker buttons (finger friendly) etc
• Autojoining on start-up to defined channels
• Some sort of bouncer support - perhaps using the quassel backend? Maybe another may suit better.
• 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)
  • /quit (or /q)
  • /close
  • /me
  • /nick
  • others are coming!

Known issues, limitations

Work is being done to eliminate these. ETA: soon™ Issues that are striked out have been fixed.

• Lacking an appropriate configuration GUI, currently the client is hardcoded to connect to the Freenode network with the nickname "Your_Nick_Here"
  • A nice page is added that appears on applaunch and solves this. You can still only connect to one server at a time though.
• Settings GUI is not working at all
• Disconnections are not detected
• Can't reconnect after disconnect
• Can't display CTCP actions (/me)
• Some /commands don't work yet
• Parting a channel or closing a query MAY result in a segfault
• Autoscrolling issues when opening/hiding VKB or chaning orientation
• Autoscrolling fails when last message is longer than 1 line
• No text selection
• Links not highlighted
• Topic is not displayed
• Autocompletion issues
• Doesn't handle mode changes
• ...?