empathy is not enought good in IRC chat

[Javier Domingo]

Binary package hint: empathy

Well, I am almost sure that everyone that has installed ubuntu new, has tried to use all the features, such as evolution, gwibber and empathy. And I am almost sure that when you try to use empathy in a normal IRC channel you see that there are several IRC common commands that are not supported. I just want to make empathy the usual IRC client in gnome and not as the windows media player is when we speak about playing a movie.

I have been reviewing the IRC RFC.1459 and there are a lot of commands that could be implemented there, for example, listing the channels. That is a vital function of a IRC client. We could also talk about whois, quit, reconnect, list . In general, all those commands that we use normally in a IRC client. I am not talking that they should all be implemented in command line, for example listing all the channels in the chat windows would just be horrible for the user.

As a reference, It could be tried to be more like xchat. That would be perfect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 81800d45f20c113a06dff429346d0105
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Sun Jan 30 02:14:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

moved to telepathy-idle since that need to support these commands.