Question about setting up IRC on pidgin

[debian]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 13:21 -0400, Schiz0 wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:14 PM, John Botscharow <info at jbotscharow.com> wrote:
> > This is a real newbie question, but then I'm a real newbie to IRC
> >
> > I was trying to set my pidgin up to use IRC I got the channel set okay,
> > but where do I enter the room name?
> >
> 
> Hey,
> 
> This doesn't answer your question (I've never used IRC via Pidgin),
> but I'll post it anyway.
> 
> I'd suggest you use something like X-Chat for IRC. XChat is excellent
> and is very customizable. I prefer the Black theme for it (The default
> theme is pretty ugly), which is at
> http://xchat.org/files/themes/blacktheme.zip
> 
> Note: XChat-Gnome is _NOT_ XChat; It's a port of xchat to gnome or
> something like that. Don't use xchat-gnome, use the normal xchat
> package.
> 
Konversation is also pretty good too, from my experience, if your a KDE
user

--cj