[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[Stephen Roller]

I slightly prefer IRC, but I'm perfectly happy moving to Jabber.  Anyone
who uses Gmail might be pleased with a switch to Jabber, I guess. 

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:31 -0400, Cristobal Palmer wrote:
> I've seen responses for and against Jabber, and I'd like to follow up
> on the MUC issue. Somebody mentioned a curses-based MUC client from
> google's SOC. Can we get any more info on that? 

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~schow031/gaim/

All I can find on the issue.  Looks like his code there.  I have not
tried this at all.  Since it is based on libgaim, it should support all
the protocols that gaim supports (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, and a bunch
others)

>From soc.txt:

> Here's a list of some of the stuff
> you can do:
> 
> * Add an account
> * Sign on/off and set status for the accounts
> * Add buddies/groups
> * Talk to buddies, join chats
> * Create custom statuses
> * Enable/disable plugins
> * View debugging information in a debug window
> * Change some preferences
> * Write gnt-specific plugins
> 
> And here's a list of some of the stuff you can NOT do yet (patches welcome!):
> 
> * Add a chat in the buddylist
> * Configure the preferences of the plugins (you can configure the prefs of
> 		gnt-specific plugins though)
> * Get a list of rooms available for chats
> * Add pounces
> * Access the account-actions
> * View logs (This should be done in accordance with what the SoC projects
> 		regarding logging has done)
> * Transfer files
> * Do anything about privacy