The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Posted Jan 16, 2007 22:32 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients by jwb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

having used screen and such I like the ability to nest windows in a window like that.

Also another example is IRSSI in the command line. You have multiple sessions open and you switch back and forth. I don't see this any different then tabs.

What I would like to see however is the ability to tear off tabs or configure it to use windows instead. Depending on the person I can see independant windows being better.

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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Posted Jan 17, 2007 7:37 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

It's a bit strange that konversation doesn't alllow you to tear off the
tabs, seeing that konqueror and konsole both have that feature. Perhaps
in the next version... What I would like, too, is having tab (or alt-/)
completion for all words in a channel, not just nicks.

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Posted Jan 18, 2007 12:36 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

well, konversation development has been rather silent for some time, but
it's getting up-speed again. submit some wishes and/or patches, and i'm
pretty sure things will get better :D

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Posted Jan 18, 2007 14:38 UTC (Thu) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]

> well, konversation development has been rather silent for some time

We tend to walk off for a while and slowly plow through larger items on our own, which then culminates in a flurry of commit activity toward the later stages of a given release cycle, giving the appearance of work happening in waves -- don't let that fool you into thinking nothing is going on inbetween. The August '06 release of 1.0 and the October '06 release of 1.0.1 should be followed by a 1.1 in a few weeks.

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Posted Jan 18, 2007 14:31 UTC (Thu) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]

Speaking as its maintainer, we'd like to have detachable tabs as well, and intend to provide that functionality in a future release, most likely for the then-current KDE 4 desktop.