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Re: Google Summer of Code Ideas

 

We already have Cable (
http://elementaryluna.blogspot.in/2012/08/cable-new-irc-chat-client.html)
But that is not an "official" elementary app.

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Aniket


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> A proper IRC client.
>
> I know Empathy does IRC, but it is unsuitable for real use.
> Try opening a few dozen channels in its tabbed interface.
> Try idling in a busy channel.
>
> All the real IRC clients either *are* a terminal app,  or look like
> terminal app in a GTK window. Compare some screens from Textual to XChat.
>
> A client with proper spacing, alignment, typesetting, focus...
> In short; a design-driven IRC client.
>
> I think this should be doable in 3 months.
>
> Pepijn
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff <
> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FYI we already have a time machine application, Cronopete. The interesting
> work items for it are
> 1) btrfs snapshots or even old copy-on-write versions of files outside of
> snapshots as storage medium, instead of a dedicated partition and
> 2) Integration into applications, much like for Contractor clients
>
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