[maemo-users] Maemo IRC client

[From: Harri Haataja]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 03:36:57PM +0200, ext Uwe Kaminski wrote:
>Kahlil Johnson schrieb:
>> I wonder if anyone has gone to the task of building a Maemo native IRC
>> client. I know Xchat didnt make it to Diablo. However I think xchat
>> desktop like gui is not the best layout for Maemo interface.
>> Would be nice to have an hildon-IRC client. Any ideas on people working on one?
>I use pidgin on the tablets for IRC. IMHO it is much better to use than
>XChat on the tablets.

The rfcomm (still beta?) has irc through libpurple0 iirc.
It looks like telepathy/empathy for maemo that does the default jabber
and sip interfaces. It's pretty terrible as an irc client but certainly
integrates to the desktop.

You can find the installer/repo in the usual places, I believe.