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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As per my earlier reply,

poor little pidgin can do IRC. The question in this AIM / Yahoo! / MSN (and
lots of other). Can X-Chat do that?

Pidgin simply gives more options for new comers who have various other
on-line accounts.

Regards,

Phill.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le Saturday 18 June 2011 à 19:20 +0100, Yorvyk a écrit :
> > No point in having two applications doing the same thing so drop
> > XChat.  I don't like Pidgin so will install XChat for IRC.
>
> Some people would like to keep XChat, but I can't find any good
> arguments for that. If you like a program, you know how to install it
> after the installation of the system. Some mentioned that the protocol
> implementation was better, but I didn't see any real comparaison.
> Finally, having 2 programs which do the same thing is usually a bad idea
> for a default install. I prefer to have 1 more language installed by
> default on the CD than a second IRC client.
>
> I'm still for the removal, unless someone come with a real good argument
> or an essential "use case" not covered by Pidgin.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>
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