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Colloquy - 2.2

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All Time:	(3.9)
Version 2.2:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	2.2
Release Date:	2009-01-09
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 2.2):	2,079
Downloads (all versions):	49,293

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Product Description:

Traditionally, IRC clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Features:

AppleScript: A powerful dictionary for easy scripting.
F-Script: For those who want to do quick Cocoa scripts without the hassle of compiling.
Fast & Solid IRC Core: Powered by the Irssi engine.
Fast & Solid SILC Core: Powered by the SILC Toolkit.
Plug-In Love: Unlimited extensability through Plug-Ins.
Tight Ship: IRC over SSL for the paranoia.
Styled For You: Pick the look for your conversations, powered by WebKit.
Smart Transcripts: Manage and filter your messages into logical groupings.
Colors of the World: Fully compatible with mIRC colors.
Unintrusive Interface: Sleek multi- or single-window modes with tabs or a drawer.
File Transfer Medly: Full DCC transfer support with resume and passive DCC.
They're Your Buddies: A buddy list for your IRC friends.
Multiplicity: The freedom to chat on multiple servers.
Open Minded: Open source, like it should be.
Much, Much More! Just a better experience all-around.

What's new in this version:

Fix a crash when deleting a connection while a room/chat is still open.
Fix a bug where Colloquy would have very high CPU usage (likely due to a room having the blank chat room bug.)
Update the console icon with the Leopard look.
Use correct source list style on Leopard.
Fixes a mixup in the German localization.
Modifies the Italian lozalization and fills in some previously missing strings.
Adds more Japanese localizations.
Fixes the strings in the French localization.
Fixes the "Auto rejoin when kicked from room" preference having no effect in the Traditional Chinese localization.
Fixes where the Room Inspector's minimum size was too small for some localizations.
Removes 'Your Name in Chat' and 'Buddy Name in Chat' as options in the General Preferences.
Remove JVUseTabbedWindow to maintain previous behaviour.
Disables the Drawer interface.
Disables the Transcript Browser.
Don't create the Colloquy Transcripts folder if logging is disabled.
Don't WHOIS server operators when checking periodically checking for online users in watch rules.
Fix /reload style and adds /reload all.
Adds the /unignore command.
Allows you to use commands with tab completion.
Initially select the Colloquy.png background when customizing styles so selecting None works the first time.
In the DecafBland style, long nicknames will now be truncated instead of wrapping to the next line.
If a nick is hyphenated in the Bland style, it will no longer wrap to the next line.
Handle IRC error '404 cannot send to channel' and show an alert.
Handle IRC error 477 'room does not support modes' or 'identify to join room', also show the literal reason in the error alert, if available.
Adds a warning if you try to switch to a nickname that is currently being used.
Displays an error message when your nick fails to change because you are changing it too fast, or if a room you are in doesn't allow it.
Add more notification when a user if offline or away when a private chat is open. And prevent sending when they are offline.
Adds support for IRC errors 'Room is Full (+l)', 'Invite Only Room (+i)' and 'Banned from Room (+b)' to Chat Core and handling of these three errors plus 'Room Password Incorrect (+k)'.
Updates the Growl framework.
Displays message(s) for room activity in Growl notifications.
Add checks to prevent trying to join a room twice.
Step back how frequent reconnects are attempted.
Use the SystemConfiguration framework to reconnect faster after a network interuption.
Fixes an issue where connections to some Undernet servers fail because of no ident.
Correctly set and remember the preferred nickname when changing it in the user interface. Unlike /nick wich is only a temp change while connected.
Fix for servers that send multiple mode prefixes in the NAMES message.
Treat the - prefix as operator. Some say it should be 'super op' but we don't have that extra mode.
Allows you to change the width of the File Transfer window.
Fixes our turbo DCC SEND requests, some were missing a space.
Fixes nick tab completion for nicks beginning with "\".
Adds some more emoticon combinations.
Fixes a bug where changes to emoticons were not reflected in appearance preview.
Fixes a bug where send message events in AppleScript would return 'missing value'.
Fix the issue where scroll events would affect background windows.
Make private messages to other users while connected to a bouncer show up when not sent from the current computer.
More than one consecutive space will now display correctly in the topic bar.
Support more URLs such as Skype, Spotify and mailto.
Fixes an error in the Buddy List. When you add a buddy to the server freenode.net, it wouldn't be recognized.
Allows you to add buddies to top level servers and remain in effect server-wide.
Fixes some leaks.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.2:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(2.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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The best keeps getting better - Version: 2.3, 8/21/2009 08:54AM PST

develand

I have been using this for a long time almost every day. Great interface. Very stable and reliable. Fast and looks great.

good looking but confusing for an irc newbie - Version: 2.2, 4/12/2009 12:02PM PST

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Notary Sojac

Colloquy really looks like an OS X application, but I am a bit confused by the interface. When notices come up they appear outside the application - as bubbles at the side of the screen - and the text in them (which is usually truncated) is not selectable. When you click on a bubble it closes, and the notices below it do not move up, so you wind up with an unknown number of bubbles that have opened below the screen's bottom edge.

I will have to look at the ReadMe (shock! horror!) to see if there's a way to have those appear in the main window or in a secondary window so I can copy & paste their texts as my ad-hoc typing is atrocious.

Still active - Version: 2.1 (3761), 7/21/2008 09:17AM PST

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