[maemo-users] Maemo IRC client

[From: ubIx]

On Montag, 4. August 2008, Harri Haataja wrote:
> 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.
OK, and for the "Chat" application on Maemo there is 
the "osso-accounts-plugin-idle" but it have problems with a port higher than 
32767.

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Ciao ubIx