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[edit] Commonly vs. Sometimes

I was quite puzzled about this myself, but after asking the devs the official name is apperently X-Chat and not XChat, however the website says XChat and their internal documentation is never clear, sometimes one is used, sometimes it's the other.

While X-Chat is as i have been told XChat or xchat is a much more common way to refer to it, so i'm writing commonly here and not sometimes. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:35, 2004 Jun 12 (UTC)

While I always spell it "X-Chat", you're absolutely correct about the spelling of "XChat" (though I've never seen it spelled "xchat", except maybe in lowercase filenames or similar). GPHemsley 04:29, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "XChat" to "X-Chat" Move

Not that I object to it or anything, but I was just wondering who made th decision to do it. GPHemsley 08:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I took it upon myself to do so, although there was a brief but general concensus on IRC beforehand. As "X-Chat" is indeed the actual name, and is used as such in the article text itself, I didn't imagine there would be a problem. (Yes, it's commonly referred to as "xchat" conversationally; the same goes for "email"—it's a casual convention, but this is an encyclopedia.) Austin Hair 09:19, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
I'm almost three years late, but official website says XChat. Only unofficial builds (like Acqua) are called X-Chat. I think a redirect inversion should be taken in consideration. --Brownout (msg) 22:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I totally agree. But to be honnest, even zed (main developper) sometimes uses the X-Chat name (see Google).
Still remains that XChat is the most used form. I'd vote for a return to XChat. -- skiidoo 04:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't matter which form is used more, in an encyclopedic view, the important thing is which one is the official name. Like what's said before, email is used more than E-mail, but the official term is E-mail.Ufopedia (talk) 09:40, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unofficial build homepage

The homepage of the unofficial build of xchat seems to be down. Anyone got informations on this? --Conti|✉ 19:48, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

It should be known that silverex.(org|info) will go down periodically (if that's what you meant by unofficial – there are a number of sites offering xchat variants), but the host says it shouldn't usually last very long: minutes, not days. I think the machine is used for a multiple things and tends to attract the kind of attention that can knock it off once in a while. It's up now, though, and I call attention to it whenever I find it down (fwiw). — b0at 20:28, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It's been pretty stable for a while; the above notice is probably obsolete. b0at 04:44, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Windows Builds (GPL) - Link down

The link X-Chat on Windows Build Lineup appears to be thoroughly down. If the article has a maintainer, s/he should check up on it and remove the link or replace it with something else.

The only existing arhive.org version of the page can be found here. -Mardus 03:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

It works fine now. Twinxor t 04:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License in the infobox

A bit misleading to say the Windows version is proprietary, no? It's GPL (besides the nagware portion, apparently) and it's allowed under the GPL to sell your software. Twinxor t 04:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Of course it is allowed under the GPL to sell your software. However, it is not allowed under GPL to take GPL code that you did not create and relicense it. Especially under a more restrictive license (shareware, in this case). That is what the problem is, not the fact that the author is selling the software. --24.117.122.78 06:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I thought you can charge under the gpl license:

4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.

You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.

You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee. --TheGeekLord 00:16, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Screen Shots

How about the next time the screen-shots get done have them displaying the official xchat channel (irc.freenode.net #xchat) Peachey88 03:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User-Box

Hate to deviate from more important issues, but I noticed that there was no X-Chat userbox. I decided to create one, but I think I'll need some help with it. What I have so far:

X This User talks on IRC using X-Chat, not that horrible thing called mIRC.


And:


X This User talks on IRC using X-Chat.


Could I have some feedback on these, and maybe some help correcting them? Thanks Dracion 13:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


Woops i didn't know you were working on one so i made this:

This user uses XChat
for chatting on I.R.C.





{{User:Peachey88/userboxes/XChat}} I'm sure there are bugs or whatnot in it, so you find one or want to correct something feel free to edit it. Peachey88 12:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why is the screenshot done under KDE?

Despite being a huge fan of KDE, I feel this screenshot on this page should show XChat running under Gnome or Xfce as it is a GTK+ application and in the current screenshot it certainly looks uglier than it would under a GTK+ desktop environment. Anyone agree? Jackster (talk) 22:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I run fluxbox. Last time I was looking at a friend's Xfce, I didn't noticed Xchat was more beautiful, and I don't want to compile KDE/Xfce/GNOME just for the sake of testing, so I believe you. I just jump on the occasion to mention that I would rather see a screenshot showing #xchat instead of #freenode-social or any other channel. And even if the interface didn't changed that much, some changes occured since 2.8.0 so this definitively needs a new screenshot. -- skiidoo (talk) 10:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windows version over other versions

The article makes it sounds like this IRC client is primarily for *nix systems, with a Windows port. But currently its Windows version is ahead of other versions, its development being more focused for the Windows version, while the new features getting ported into the other versions later. Ufopedia (talk) 07:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)