Smuxi IRC app updates with new features & fixes

By , Published July 25, 2010

Selection_001[2]Smuxi IRC client – which impressed us considerably in our previous review – has released a new version packed with updates and fixes.

Smuxi 0.7.2, codenamed ‘Lovegood’, sees 32 bug fixes and 17 new features some of which are: -

  • file logging
  • configurable highlight words
  • fully customizable filters to ignore messages or events
  • markerlines which device old messages from new messages
  • enhanced network status
  • window title format
  • extended CTCP support
  • Fixed messages sometimes sent to the wrong network
  • Fixed numerous twitter feature issues
  • New translations

Full list of fixes n' features can be gawped at on Smuxi's roadmap @ http://www.smuxi.org/versions/show/12

Download

You know the drill by now: Smuxi has a PPA (Jaunty through Lucid) and you should add and install the IRC client this way to ensure you stay up-to-date with the latest fixes and features.

Open a terminal and paste the following two lines to install Smuxi:-

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:meebey/ppa
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install smuxi
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Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

    I want a tabbed mode so that its netbook friendly.. should be better than the one in xchat ewww.

    • zekopeko

      You can. The tabs can be on any edge of the window. You really should install the application and run it before commenting on it.

      • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

        oh cool but cant try this ppa is not for maverick :(

        • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

          oh darn its in maverick universe already.. installing

          • https://launchpad.net/~meebey Mirco Bauer

            I am trying the best I can to make Smuxi everywhere available. Debian and Ubuntu enjoy priority :-)

  • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

    Okey, enough contradiction! I am getting this :)

  • http://twitter.com/ethnt Ethan Turkeltaub

    I find XChat a more “traditional” IRC client. I like it better.

    • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

      xchat is not being developed anymore so no fun there.

      • http://jcl.posterous.com levesque

        I prefer xchat. More features, more control over them. Smuxi’s UI does feel better though.Also the last version of xchat was released on the 30rd of May (2010). Is that what you call not being developed anymore?

  • http://twitter.com/Mkaysi Mika Suomalainen

    Twitter and IRC in same app? Maybe Twitter #hashtags can be used as channels. Interesting.
    EDIT:
    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/using-omg-ubuntu-irc-channel-how-to.html Using the OMG! Ubuntu! IRC Channel – How to join in the fun | OMG! Ubuntu!

    • http://twitter.com/Mkaysi Mika Suomalainen

      Twitter hashtags cannot be used as channels.

  • Tamara

    Irssi is the best IRC client.

  • haydoni

    It works well I’m gonna play with it… one thing straight away is that the logo is low resolution (and not vector graphic), it looks terrible in docky (at icon size 60)!!

    • haydoni

      I take it back, it is an SVG… just not a very good one!

      • haydoni

        I take it back… no idea why it looks crap in docky!

        • https://launchpad.net/~meebey Mirco Bauer

          Looks fine in my Docky. I remember an issue that that docky will pickup the icon not from the desktop file but from the window icon or something for the first start for some reason.

  • Bill

    it’s no xchat, that’s for sure (talking feature/customizable wise)

  • http://stas.nerd.ro/ Stas

    Why Mono when there’s Python?!?!
    https://edge.launchpad.net/sushi

  • http://twitter.com/UbuntuRussian Ivan Ivanoff

    Mono is an Evil! Pidgin is better! Why I have to use IRC-client only when I can get multi-protocol decision like Pidgin?

    • http://www.google.com/profiles/nosrepa Zach

      Because for most irc uses, pidgin sucks.

 
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