You could always just use an older version of xchat... I can't imagine any crucial new features being added (in the next 10 years or so :) Otherwise, there's always "bitchx" (http://www.bitchx.com/) it's a little ugly and has an offensive name but works ok. If you use mutt for mail *giggle* you may be interested in zenirc (http://www.zenirc.org) for emacs.
I don't think you should give up on gtk2 so easily. It's possible that debian's gtk2 default settings are just screwed up. I remember the first time I saw gtk2 I was like "oh my god, it's clean, clear, and looks like heaven!". I run redhat or gentoo on all my systems, everything's gtk2 (except stuff that hasn't got there yet of course :) Install redhat's bluecurve theme or choose a better default gtk2 theme and xchat won't look so bad. The theme editting/changing tools are pretty decent these days (way better then gtk1 ever was, imo) and fontconfig is like having a whole new xfree. I only have a PIII 450mhz (it's not a celeron which makes a huge difference but still) but often I'm running gtk-gnutella, a couple mozillas, anjuta, evolution, rhythmbox, and glade all in gtk2 with no trouble at all. In fact, since my main comp uses gentoo, I often am upgrading things, which means compiling stuff from source, in the background and gtk-gnutella putts right along. However, I've got a lot of ram and use gentoo which is pretty optimized and fine-tuned. Maybe the 'slowness' you're experiencing in gtk-gnutella with gtk2 is our fault. Maybe we're updating too many widgets too often or something. A newbie user running a new distribution will probably be using gnome 2 and there's no reason gtk-gnutella shouldn't run fine on a 433, especially if it's not core that's hogging the cpu. Is speed enhancement something we should look into? I'd be into that. Emile On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 22:23, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > Folks, > > after having upgraded "xchat" on my system, I found myself with an > ugly GTK2 version, that has horrible unreadable fonts, bad spacing, > disgusting colors, etc... In a word, "unusable". > > Since there is no longer any xchat-GTK1 version on Debian testing, I > tried "gaim", and saw that it was also a GTK2 version. I flew away > in panic, and de-installed it immediately. > > As a result, I'm left with no access to IRC. I'll miss the great > xchat with its nice GTK1 interface. I don't understand what people > find so great about GTK2: the look of GTK1 was decent enough, and > at least the default fonts were readable! And it did not use as much > CPU as GTK2 does (well, at least gtk-gnutella for GTK2 sucks all the > CPU power of my poor Celeron 466 MHz). > > So I won't be accessing IRC anymore. Thank god, I can still read > e-mail with mutt. ;-) > > Raphael > > P.S: Does anyone know about a good X11 client for IRC? Anything non-GTK2 > will do, as long as it's nice, useable, as decently equipped with the > basic IRC features (multi-server, multi-channel, configurable keyword > highlighting, macros for shortcuts). > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. > Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From > careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the > best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 > _______________________________________________ > Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
