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User:Venemo/IRC Chatter
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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 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
- Your feature idea here!
Features already there
- Decent and shiny GUI
- Usable in portrait mode too (with virtual keyboard)
- You can select text and open links
Known issues, limitations
Work is being done to eliminate these. ETA: soon™
- Lacking an appropriate configuration GUI, currently the client is hardcoded to connect to the Freenode network with the nickname "Your_Nick_Here"
- 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
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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 - ...?