On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:23:25AM +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> 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".
I have negative feelings towards gtk2 as well, though I could live with
the look once things are configured.
> 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.
Maybe there is no more gtk1 version and they moved to gtk2. That would
explain dropping the gtk1 version.
If you think you could live with gaim, you could try ayttm. Not sure how
the irc support is, but IMHO gaim's was quite poor.
> As a result, I'm left with no access to IRC.
> 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!
I believe Gtk1 had some bad locale problems (gaim people claim) and a
list bug that, for example, causes gqview to crash if you delete the
last file in the list and then try to use certain commands when the
"pointer" still hangs in that empty space (Where it stays after delete.
This is the bug part.).
> So I won't be accessing IRC anymore. Thank god, I can still read
> e-mail with mutt. ;-)
I would recommend trying the curses ones like irssi or epic (but not bx
unless you can unfsck it first). There's also some effort going toward a
gtk interface to irssi.
I personally use tirc. It is rather spartan but has quite good vi
keybindings and history which save me a lot of frustration while editing
text.
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