[opensuse-gnome] Default IRC client... Again...
Hello, I had a look at what's required to make pidgin the default IRC client in 11.0. The result is, we don't! First of all, purple-url-handler is using depreciated dbus calls. This has been a known bug (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3520) with the Pidgin developers for the last 7 months. Second, purple-url-handler is broken :-/ See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383574 Third, it's not possible to dynamically create a Pidgin IRC account when clicking on an IRC link. That means that we would have to add silly patches just to make this work (See Comment#2 in the above mentioned bugzilla bug) So unless someone have any strong objection, and/or want to fix up pidgin to work properly, xchat should replace xchat-gnome instead of pidgin. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Magnus Boman wrote:
I had a look at what's required to make pidgin the default IRC client in 11.0. The result is, we don't!
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So unless someone have any strong objection, and/or want to fix up pidgin to work properly, xchat should replace xchat-gnome instead of pidgin.
I've voted for pidgin because it is available more or less anyway but in that case I agree to use xchat. I see one left issue with xchat though: It seems that one has to define --existing to the commandline to open an irc url from the commandline (or from a browser). It would be very nice to have a wrapper (or a patched xchat) to autodetect that and if it's running reuse that session and otherwise open xchat. Sounds reasonable? Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:56 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Magnus Boman wrote:
I had a look at what's required to make pidgin the default IRC client in 11.0. The result is, we don't!
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So unless someone have any strong objection, and/or want to fix up pidgin to work properly, xchat should replace xchat-gnome instead of pidgin.
I've voted for pidgin because it is available more or less anyway but in
Yes, same here. Also to free up some space on the CD.
that case I agree to use xchat. I see one left issue with xchat though: It seems that one has to define --existing to the commandline to open an irc url from the commandline (or from a browser). It would be very nice to have a wrapper (or a patched xchat) to autodetect that and if it's running reuse that session and otherwise open xchat. Sounds reasonable?
I don't really see an issue with having to specify --existing since it will open up a new xchat session if one doesn't exist. And having it reuse an already running xchat is much nicer than starting a second instance. I don't think a lot of people have to worry about the command line URL at the end of the day?
Wolfgang
Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Magnus Boman wrote:
I see one left issue with xchat though: It seems that one has to define --existing to the commandline to open an irc url from the commandline (or from a browser). It would be very nice to have a wrapper (or a patched xchat) to autodetect that and if it's running reuse that session and otherwise open xchat. Sounds reasonable?
I don't really see an issue with having to specify --existing since it will open up a new xchat session if one doesn't exist. And having it reuse an already running xchat is much nicer than starting a second instance.
Hmm, ok, I missed the fact that --existing opens a new process if needed ;-) No objections then ;-) Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:40 +1000, Magnus Boman wrote:
So unless someone have any strong objection, and/or want to fix up pidgin to work properly, xchat should replace xchat-gnome instead of pidgin.
+1 -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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