On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:33:37PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Saturday, Jul 5, 2003, at 18:23 Europe/Helsinki, Andrew de los Reyes > wrote: > > >I want to let you guys (Timo Sirainen and the other developers) that I > >have come pretty far in making a Cocoa front-end for Irssi. My goal > >with the project is to make a very userfriendly graphical IRC client > >for Mac OS X. The reason I went with Irssi is because of all the > >opensource IRC clients I looked at, Irssi had the cleanest code base. > > Nice :) I just bought a powerbook last thursday, have been playing with > it ever since. I really like my current wireless setup, especially the > esound driver that I found which lets me use iTunes and send the audio > to Linux server via wlan which finally sends it to my amplifier. And > switching between esd and internal speakers / headphones works with > just a few clicks without even having to stop the music. I really like > this thing :)
yeah. i'm using a linux desktop machine and a mac laptop too. :) i'll have to try out the esound driver you speak of. > > Anyway, irssix seemed to work fine. I can't really live without black > background, so I didn't test it too much. /quit seemed to crash it. I > guess you also have nicklist window in TODO list already? And I > couldn't really figure out how to build it from sources. "make" ran > only one command and said "finished", but I couldn't figure out how to > run it. > yeah, as you can see it is beta. on the todo list: a gui configuration would be nice at least for some basic things (e.g. what you would normally pass on the command line assuming it has a bitchx/ircii style invocation), nicklist window, a configurable dock badge showing if you;ve been /msg'd perhaps. and i guess i'll add in a default fg/bg colors for the windows. :) as for the character set issues, i haven't played with non-us characters. i'll try to play with them soon. being internationally-friendly pretty important to me. i'll keep you informed, -andrew
