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@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ + + +irssi + + + * ABOUT + +Irssi is an IRC client made with GTK+ toolkit and (optional) GNOME libraries. +A small text mode version is also somewhat working, there's also a really +simple daemon version which just loads "bot" plugin (which doesn't exist). +I'd also like to see KDE version but someone else will have to do it. + + + * FEATURES + +See COMMANDS file for list of all commands irssi knows. + +I've been asked quite a lot about why should one use irssi, what does it do +that other IRC clients don't? Well, to tell you the truth, I have no idea :) +Still I've got a lot of mails saying it's the best GUI IRC client they've +ever used :) Let's see.. It should be easy to use, it has most of the +features IRC client needs and it's pretty stable. Here's a small list of what +it does: + + - Nice configuration :) Especially the color settings. + - You can connect to multiple servers. Irssi is also IRC network aware so + you can specify some settings to work only in specified IRC networks. + - Automatically connect to IRC server(s) at startup, automatically join to + channels when connected + - All code is nonblocking, it won't hang while connecting to server or + opening DCC connection. Host lookups are done in separate processes. + - DCC send, receive and chat with GUI + - GNOME panel support, channels and queries are displayed in GNOME panel + where you can easily see which channels have been updated (label turns to + red) and click in them to open the channel. + - Doubleclicking URL in text widget launches specified web/ftp/email client, + also doubleclicking channel/nick join to channel or creates query. + - Aliases, ignores, autoignoring when flooding, notify lists, completing + specified words with tab (like home<tab> -> http://my.home.page), + hilighting lines with specified texts + - Smart nick completion + - Configurable logging support + - You can use ZVT widget to print texts, it's really fast so you can be + joined to many high traffic channels and irssi won't slow up + - Plugins support, creating plugins is really easy. + - Lots of nice GUI stuff :) + + + * INSTALLATION + +./configure +make +make install + +Configure can use these parameters (all of these defaults to yes): + + --with-proplist=dir Specify libPropList directory + --with-servertest Build test irc server which you can use to try crash + irc clients + --without-gnome Build without GNOME libraries + --without-gnome-panel Build without GNOME panel + --without-imlib Build without Imlib library + --without-socks Build without socks library + --without-textui Build without text mode version + --enable-memdebug Enable memory debugging, great for finding memory + leaks + --enable-gtk-hebrew Enable Hebrew support - see README-HEBREW + +There's also some others, you can get a full list with ./configure --help + +If you don't want to run irssi in panel, add --no-applet to command line +parameters. + + + * BUGS / SUGGESTIONS + +See TODO file if it is already listed in there - if not send me email.. + + + * AUTHOR + +Timo Sirainen, cras@irccrew.org, cras/ircnet/#irssi, http://xlife.dhs.org/irssi/ |