I have a need for an IRC client again. I kinda liked Halley, but... it didn't really fit all that well with my otherwise GNOME-ish looking desktop.
Going to have to reevaluate my options yet again.
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@petko tbh, I'm happy with XMPP. Dino & Conversations serves me & family & friends well enough. They like both much more than any other chat app they tried.
Something similar to Dino (or Conversations), but for IRC would be perfection.
Quick requirements: I want something that fits either into my GNOME-ish set of apps. So no text-mode clients, no QT, no custom GUIs. ERC might be an option, because fitting into my Emacs is also fine.
I don't need many fancy features, but I do want it to look decent at ~960x1080 resolution, without unnecessary elements taking up precious screen real estate.
Quick shootout:
- Polari: Hangs when trying to connect to libera.chat.
- SRain: The default layout (pictured) looks horrible. I can disable the channel member list, but not the server list.
...and that's pretty much the GTK/GNOME clients.
I guess I'll see what I can do with ERC.
@petko Yes. Looks very out of place on a GNOME desktop. Used it for a month or two, and drove me crazy.
Hrm. Doomemacs's irc module wraps circe. I guess I can have a look at that, too.
@algernon IRC's (and XMPP's) main drawback for me has been the fact that *all* their client apps are utter crap even for techies, let alone persons who don't run their own e-mail server...