Xchat: the exception that confirms the rule?

[Corey Burger]

On Jan 27, 2008 3:47 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
<joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> XChat isn't included in Ubuntu by default, and I guess that's because
> of the rule of one application for each task. However, I feel that
> even though Pidgin can be used for IRC, it does the job so poorly
> compared to XChat, that it isn't a real option. Most users quickly
> install XChat anyway. I therefore think XChat should be included by
> default, and not XChat-GNOME, but the standard one. IRC, after all, is
> a very important tool in this FOSS world of ours.

Xchat was removed quite deliberately because although IRC is used a
great deal by us geeks, it is not really something mom/pop and the
more recent generation use, as they mostly use IM, SMS or increasingly
Facebook.

Corey