[Hamara-devel] the IRC client part on the wiki

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 07/01/2015 01:21 AM, shirish wrote:

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> Few clients which turned out to be good
>
> ayttm, hexchat, loqui, lostirc, pork, scrollz, sic, weechat,
> weechat-curses, xchat, talksoup.app
>
> Will give a brief about each of them as have installed all of them, so
> we can narrow down choices that we want to give to our users, also makes
> it easier which ones to document.
>

Hi all,
So here we go :-

a.ayttm - GUI-based, pretty easy

b.hexchat - Gui-based as well, pretty easy as well.

c.loqui - another GUI-based tool, pretty bare but easy as well, UI not 
so intuitive as the ones above so maybe not for the first-timer.

d.lostirc - another GUI tool, again easy .

e.pork - command-line based, easy if you know IRC, beautiful but 
probably not for newbies probably but oldies like me would love it in 
case I need instant support because of some issue on the GUI (rarely 
does Debian broke but has happened on those times, these tools are 
heaven-send :) ).

f.scollz - if you love ASCII, you will love scrollz (again CLI-based), 
not for newbies

g. weechat - It comes with the ncurses interfaces, sits somewhere 
in-between the newbie and the CLI crowd. A bit retro, early/late 90's look.

h. xchat - again GUI-based.

i. talksoup.app - again a 90's look client.


With the exception of the CLI-based ones, all of them are good to go.
It might take some more time but will share which have on-going 
development because it makes sense to use and share those which have 
active development happening and probably have a team. The ones which do 
not have either will be harder to support if either it's a one-person 
thing or development has stopped. Those are also the factors
we have to consider.

Of course, we can use either Empathy or Pidgin as well which I have 
shared about before. Pidgin is one of the more mature projects but does 
break once in a while (if you are a habitual upgrader like me). Empathy 
haven't used much but do see it looks good as am a happy camper under 
quassel.

Going to start documenting Polari now :)


-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org