KVIrc

KVIrc is a free available in many languages ​​, graphical IRC client for Windows, Linux and other Unix derivatives, and Mac OS. The K in K Visual IRC stand for the dependency on KDE, which is however not given mandatory since version 2.0.0. The project started in 1998.

Functions

KVIrc supports multiple simultaneous connections to servers (optionally with SSL and / or IPv6). In addition to Unicode and ISO -8859- * encodings KVIrc also supports Asian and native Windows character sets. A special feature is the intelligent coding, which allows Unicode ( Linux / Unix standard) together with one of the other character sets such as CP to use 1252 ( the Windows encoding ).

In addition to the popular mIRC formatting codes for bold, underlined or colored text has KVIrc on ( turn-off ) graphic emoticons and the ability to set a avatar that can request and view all compatible IRC client.

KVIrc can be combined with the on-board scripting language KVS, expand based on C , Perl and sh similar to the mIRC scripting language MSL. Furthermore, one can for channel, query, or DCC connections encryption means Mircryption (compatible with Blowfish ) activate or Rijndael.

With the split window mode allows the chat window divided into two separate. The one window then contains only the talks while the other processes in the channel - for example, the entry and exit of users - displays. The window size is variable.

A socket monitoring supports the developers and users by ensuring that it displays on demand the raw data exchange with the IRC server you can easily find errors and / or deviation from the RFC.

Development

Stable releases are rarely published. However, regularly called snapshots are provided on the home page that get more new features. Suggestions of users that express minor wishes on the official chat are sometimes directly implemented and published.

KVIrc has changed before the release of the new stable version from CVS to SVN. KVIrc 3.4.x is the last version with Qt 3, only bug fixes are published in the current version is 3.4.2, the latest published version. Version 3.4.3 exists in an SVN branch.

With the release of KVIrc 4.0.0, codenamed Insomnia, which uses Qt 4, the support for KVIrc3 was completely set.

KVIrc 4

In SVN trunk is currently KVIrc 4.1.3 Codename Equilibrium. In an SVN Branch Version 4.0.2 was released due to a serious security problem, which contains many fixes for 4.0.0, but no new feature, such as 4.1.