With the help of Xenon on #colloquy, the weird bug in my Colloquy message style is now gone. Yay. Well, I say “my” style – about 4 characters of it is my original work. It’s really just the bastard lovechild of DecafBland and Standard. Still, I think it is more than the sum of its parts and is actually rather sexy. I’ve posted it here if anyone is interested, and a screenshot is left (just in case you hadn’t realised)…
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I still say: “irssi++;â€
Colloquy is, as I have often heard it described, “irssi on acid”. It’s easily the most mac-like IRC client around
IRC in my opinion needs to be text-only. It was made that way. Same way OSCAR was made to have file tranfer, profiles, buddy icons… the whole thing. And Colloquy is indeed irssi on acid, and therefore loses some functions
zaudragon: like what? I’m with Sam here I think, Colloquy simplifies what is actually quite a complex system and makes it approachable for the average quasi-geek
Yeah, Colloquy is good for a person who has never used IRC before. irssi on the other hand is nice for the advanced users. You can do anything on irssi you can in Colloquy, and you have a little more options. There are many other irssi users out there, who make scripts for our consumption. Colloquy users do to, but the irssi ones are more customizable. Eh… I ran out of arguements.
For me it’s all about the tasty GUI. I don’t care what bells and whistles an app has; if I’m going to be using it for any amount of time of my own volition then a program needs to look nice and be easy to use.
Ref: Safari vs Firefox
Firefox has sexy extensions that do all many of awesome things, Safari has a UI that doesn’t suck (and a faster rendering engine, but who’s counting?). Guess which one is my browser of choice.
You know what’s a great best-of-both example? MPlayer OSX. You have the whole of MPlayer, but you also have this sexy little minimalist controller interface for issuing all your basic commands in. Very cool.