[Bug 476399] [NEW] "User List" window is not shown when connectiong to default channel

[Tomas Pospisek]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xchat

When I connect to the first channel, but don't see the "User List"
window. If I connect a second channel then it's there in the second.
Changing back and forth between the channels doesn't make the "User
List" window appear with the first channel. Also dragging the right side
of the window around (resizing the window) doesn't make a "User List"
appear either. There should be a vertical bar that separates the chat
window from the "User List" window, which one should be able to drag to
make it appear, but there isn't any.

The problem seems to be the following:

When starting xchat, it will prompt me to select an entry from the
"XChat: Network List". In such an entry you can define the default
channel to connect to. If the entry doesn't contain a default channel to
connect to (so only the IRC server is defined) and you select this entry
("a Network") to connect to, then xchat first connects to the server,
shows you the main chat window with the chatter from the server and
prompts you again, asking for a channel to connect to. You give it some
channel and then it will open a "sub-connection" to the channel.

It's conceptually correct to *not* list users in the connection to the
server itself but *only* on the connected channel.

Defining a default channel to connect to in the first step above will
make xchat connect directly to that channel without opening a separate
"sub-connection" to the channel. Thus the server chatter and the channel
messages will be shown in the same "chat window". Aparently xchat
interprets this wrt to window layout as a "server connection", and thus
"logically" will not show the users list.

This is a logical bug in xchat.

Package: xchat
Version: 2.8.6-4ubuntu2
Ubuntu Release: Karmic

** Affects: xchat (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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"User List" window is not shown when connectiong to default channel
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