Re: [gtk-list] Re: Announce : new irc client

[fractture <fract sprintmail com>]

Shevek wrote:

> On Sat, 9 May 1998, ari wrote:
>
> >    irc clients.
> >
> > many text based clients hover around (most of them based on ircII) which
> > are by all means some of the best.  some people don't like text-based clients.
> >
> > i have yet to see a good, powerful X irc client.  TkIRC comes the closest
> > to this, as it has the gui feel but the functionality of ircII (being an
> > ircII front-end), but as it is written in tk, it takes up more cpu than i
> > would willingly allocate to an irc client.
> At this point, I point out something I often point out to M$ users who use
> whatever that annoying MS Mail client that sends HTML and weird stuff I
> can never read and so delete without looking twice at it.
>
> SMTP is a plaintext protocol. So is IRC! So I expect a) a text based
> mailreader, b) a textbased newsreader and c) a text based irc program.
>
> I don't _like_ ircII, sirc, etc, etc. I like being able to do a /window
> create to popup a new window in an xterm. That's about as graphical as I
> would go. ksirc is a bit much. But being text based, they're pretty close
> to the best thing for the job. Maybe a very simple front end to sirc with
> all the perl scripting would be best? But I hate window borders, button
> bars, menus, etc on any application which dosen't need them and has a
> perfectly good command based interface, because they are a waste of screen
> space, which is at a premium on a big working desktop.
>

ircii has the ability to open new windows. "/window create"