no more irc chat client

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le vendredi 03 mars 2006 à 16:16 -0600, Carl Karsten a écrit :
> xChat-gnome got dropped from dapper and nothing replaced it.
> 
> (4:10:55 PM) CarlFK: !ubotu: seen
> (4:10:57 PM) ubotu: there are 18565 seen entries that I know of.
> 
> 18,000 is a lot of people.  some of them got some good help.  Some of them would 
> not if they had to install a chat client.
> 
> With irc://irc.freenode.net/ubuntu is on the opening Firefox page, I bet more 
> people will get support.  I am sure that pulling that from the FF page will 
> result in less people getting that support.
> 
> I realize that "X people getting support" is hard to compare to "Y people using 
> app so-and-so" - but the support can span all parts of ubuntu, an app is just an 
> app.
> 
> I also realize that everything must be given a priority and to make room at the 
> top things on the bottom get dropped.
> 
> Should an avenue of support really be at the bottom of the priority list?
> 

I strongly disagree about the decision to remove x-g.
What's the official reason to remove x-g as default?

Now than irc:// are pretty handled by x-g, it's really stupid to not
offer the possibility to a default Ubuntu installation the ability to
open these URL.

During all the development cycle, we said than x-g was the new IRC
default client (see UDN 2 and Flight 3 announce). Remove it at this
stage sounds like "lying publicity".
I can swear you than a lot of users were enthusiastic to have x-g as irc
default client.
(but i'm certainly not very objective as i'm a x-g upstream dev)


	G.

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