a nicely GUI-ish irc client?

hook · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject: a nicely GUI-ish irc client?

i'm looking for a nice GUI irc client

i myself am quite happy with BitchX, but i work at a linux-based (and so much more!) cybercaffee, and it's a realy pain in the ass to teach every single win-user how and why to use BitchX (or even Xchat) ...i can't bare it anymore!!!
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tomthewombat · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject:

Can't you compile BitchX with an xwindows interface? I believe it adds tabs for each channel and a simple menu driven interface. I am not quite sure how to do it though

In fact, I remember it being relatively unstable, but that was several years ago.

slartibartfasz · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject:

kvirc (http://www.kvirc.net/) or mirc (win) under wine
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floam · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject:

uh, xchat 2.0+ is quite nice and easy to use, even nice looking with its pretty gtk2, if they cant use that, then bleh, why are they at a linux cybercafe?

hook · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject:

Ellidi · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:00 pm Post subject:

Xchat is the sh*t. ANYone can learn it in 5 minutes..
My sister who is 14 had no problem with it :)

And it looks nice too :)
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Ellidi · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

for a cybercofee, chatzilla could be a nice idea. :roll:

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hook · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject:

chatzilla? ...hmmm, i'll give it a try

but i'm still open for other suggestions
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shm · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:48 am Post subject:

Lisandro · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:18 am Post subject:

I've been strugling to find a decent client for QT myself. Kvirc is *very* powerful, but it just kill my eyes. All that "eyecandy" is useless, most of it can't be changed (like the windows colors/button, and the little icons it places on each line) and all in all reminds me of one of those crappy scripts for mIRC. A damn pitty, as i said it's otherwise excellent.

So, i went on looking for clients... with little or no luck. The closest call was X-Chat2, which is ok and looks pretty configurable. But's GTK and it lacks some features i'd like (aliases, nick notify list, etc etc etc). Is a text client all that's left?