Nemo/IRC Chatter

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

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.

Releases

Latest version

• v0.3.2 - Nov 10, 2012, Download

Bugs, feature requests

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

Platform support

The app is currently working on Harmattan and it's also the official IRC client of Nemo Mobile. It should work on any platform but its current UI is dependent on the MeeGo Qt Components. Success has been reported on Plasma Active as well.