[Trisquel-devel] Slaine development iso update 20110119

[Andrew Ter-Grigoryan]

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:20 +0100, Rubén Rodríguez wrote:
> > The only thing I don't like is that you have removed our beloved
> > XChat. Free software is all about community, and IRC is a staple of
> > that community. Why did you choose to do remove it? Because Pidgin
> > already features IRC chat?
> 
> Xchat and pidgin are not very good irc clients, but having two mediocre
> programs for the same task is just too much. I think pidgin covers irc
> in a good enough way, even better than xchat in some aspects.
> 
> And as ever, xchat is a couple of clicks away if you want to install it.

I tried Pidgin for IRC (mainly because, as a tester, I like to stay with
the defaults as much as possible) last night and was quite satisfied.

I was very well satisfied with XChat in the past, so I am just
wondering: if you think XChat is a mediocre IRC client, what is a good
or great one?