Xchat-Gnome on Life

Pushing for xchat-gnome 0.26.3

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:49:00 +0530

xchat-gnome 0.26.2 has been tagged, though it hasn’t yet been uploaded to ftp.gnome.org. Instead, I am pushing for an immediate 0.26.3 release—hopefully the final release in the GTK+ 2.x series—followed by xchat-gnome 0.3.0 targeting GNOME 3.

xchat-gnome and Delays

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:35:00 +0530

Apologies for the delay in releasing a new version. I recently relocated to Pune and am searching for accommodation, after which I’ll be setting up broadband internet. Once that is sorted out, I will resume active work on xchat-gnome.

In the meantime, patches and contributions are very welcome!

P.S.: xchat-gnome now has an official mailing list.

xchat-gnome 0.26.2

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:46:00 +0530

I am currently one of the maintainers of xchat-gnome and am working steadily toward releasing version 0.26.2. Track progress on GNOME Bug 602311.

xchat-GNOME Fullscreen

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:56:00 +0530

You love chatting over IRC, IRC is life, and you need your IRC client to support fullscreen mode! Look no further: xchat-gnome requires only a trivial patch to support fullscreen.

For more information, see Fullscreen support for xchat-gnome (GNOME Bug 445638).

Yes, xchat-gnome needs your love!

xchat-gnome: Sound Notification

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:46:00 +0530

Upon quitting Totem, I heard a ping. This came from xchat-gnome (via the sound-notification plugin). It turns out gnome_sound_play was being used to play the sound, which defaults to the ESD backend:

gnome_sound_play("../../data/message.wav");

ESD has been superseded by PulseAudio in most major distributions. I would prefer moving to a GStreamer-based backend, so I rewrote the code to use GStreamer. However, the ping still didn’t work while I was playing music through Totem.

xchat-gnome: Unchecking "Mark as Away" Does Not Work

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:07:00 +0530

Ticking “Away” worked like a charm on xchat-gnome, but unticking it didn’t do any magic.

This turned out to be a bug fixed upstream (GNOME #462031). Grepping the code revealed a rather trivial fix, which on further lookup was part of the Fedora 9 build. I ended up filing a bug report (Fedora #430883).

A package was released with the stated fix, which crashed xchat-gnome whenever one tried to set or unset away: