Revision as of 20:46, 10 November 2012

IRC Chatter

IRC Chatter is a lightweight, touch-friendly IRC client aimed at touchscreen devices. IRC Chatter is based on Qt, QML, and its backend uses libcommuni, a Qt-based IRC client library.

IRC Chatter is free and open source software licensed under the terms of GPLv2+. (Some parts are licensed under LGPL.)

Introduction

IRC Chatter was born from the necessity to have an awesome IRC app on MeeGo/Harmattan. The platform didn't support previous software technologies like GTK+ or QWidgets, so it was necessary to create one in QML. This was the first IRC client for Harmattan and has gone a long way since then: now it's the official IRC client of Nemo Mobile, and enjoys popularity in the community.

The author of the app is Timur Kristóf (aka. Venemo)

Contributors are:

• Hiemanshu Sharma (aka. hiemanshu)
• László Papp (aka. djszapi)
• Johannes Siipola (aka. joppu) created the icon

Special thanks to:

• Misha Ketslah (aka. ZogG)
• Ryan Abel (aka. GeneralAntilles)
• Javier S. Pedro (aka. javispedro)

Questions?

You can ask your questions from us directly on IRC, on Freenode.

• #irc-chatter is the official channel for IRC Chatter
• #nemomobile is the channel for Nemo related discussions
• The version for the Nokia N9 may also be discussed in #harmattan

Releases

Latest version

• v0.3.2 - Nov 10, 2012
  • To install on Nemo, run zypper in irc-chatter as root.
  • Download for Harmattan

Bugs, feature requests

• Please use the Nemo bugzilla to report them
  • File your bug under the "Applications" / "IRC client" category

Platform support

It should work on any platform but its current UI is dependent on the MeeGo Qt Components.

• Nemo Mobile
• Plasma Active
• Harmattan

Hacking on IRC Chatter

Useful links

• IRC Chatter repo on Gitorious
  • Shortended URL is http://bit.ly/ircchattercode
  • Feel free to clone it and send me merge a request if you've implemented something!
• Communi's site
  • Communi documentation

Building

• The usual Qt mantra
  • 'qmake'
  • 'make'
• Use 'dpkg-buildpackage' to build a Debian package (eg. for Harmattan)
  • You can add qmake flags to the package build via the QMAKEFLAGS environment variable

Dependencies

• Qt >= 4.7.x
• Qt Quick 1.1
• qt-components (the MeeGo variant)
• libcommuni
  • NOTE: because of Nokia Store packaging requirements, the necessary parts of the Communi library are embedded into the executable
  • NOTE: the author of Communi has also created his own IRC client app, which is not to be confused with IRC Chatter
• libmeegotouch
  • NOTE: IRC Chatter only uses MTF for notifications. This is something that can be easily patched out. The app does not use MTF for any other purpose.