+1 While xchat has helped me over the years, I am more technical than the average Joe(25 years plus in IT). Its not the easiest thing to get the hang of.
To be honest I think anything that can make irc easier and more noob ( apologies for generalisation, but this is the best term) Has to be a good step Dave Sent from my Nexus 7... On 29 Jul 2014 13:10, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Simon_Steinbei=DF?= <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Xubuntu team members, > > we started voting on a proposal for the default IRC client in today's > meeting[0]. > > In short, what we're voting on is whether to drop XChat for Xubuntu > 14.10. > > == Rationale == > > Those who need IRC can still use pidgin and this is a consistent move > in terms of streamlining our default applications (remember the > dropping of GThumb in 14.04). > This decision would be revisited for 15.04, so if we'd see the need, we > could re-add XChat (or hexchat). > > == Voting == > > Just reply with +1, 0 or -1 to this thread – you can obviously also > explain why you voted one or the other way. So far, we have 4 votes > from team members for the proposal to drop XChat and 0 against (and 0 > abstained). > > Please note that ONLY XUBUNTU TEAM MEMBERS CAN VOTE. Other votes are > ignored, so please don't send a vote and waste bandwidth unless you are > an active member of the Xubuntu team [1]. > > == End of vote == > > This vote will expire in one week (June 6th, 10:00 UTC), so please send > in your votes in a timely manner. > > Cheers > Simon > Xubuntu Project Lead > > [0] > http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2014/xubuntu-devel.2014-07-29-10.30.log.txt > [1] https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-team/+members#active > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
