XChat Azure for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By astrutt2002

  I love xchat azure!

  I’ve used this package for years. Just updated to the new version, it’s better, but there are some new bugs. bug: shift Microsoft command key { and } no longer change tabs in PC High Sierra. It worked AOK before. bug: Single Click on a url now opens the url twice in the browser. — Previous version of xchat aqua/azure did not have these 2 bugs.

  
  
• By Hyper_Eye

  Small Annoyances

  The last update does not seem to have caused any major issues but there are some slight annoyances. The first is that the preferences and logs were moved and I had a hard time finding them. The second is that the channels are not scrolled all the way to the bottom when you switch to them. I will scroll a channel to the buttom but when I go to another one and come back the scrollbar returns to the previous position. The position that it returns to seems to be consistent for all channels. This is quite annoying if you switch between channels frequently as I do. I am running X-Chat Azure on Lion.

  
  
• By Bond Pard

  Ruined by appstore policies

  This was good software until the current dev became hellbent on distributing it through the appstore rather than traditional means. Adding it to the appstore meant adhering to Microsoft's "guidelines", which effectively strip down fully functional computer software, into measly sub-par, semi-functional "apps". Before this abomination took hold, X-Chat Aqua was decent software; rather than fixing up the codebase and bringing it on par with Linux/Windows, we have this. The app sandboxing reduces all plugin functionality to moot, what is the point of having Python/Perl plugins when 98% of the system remains inaccessible? The last usable, reliable, stable release is Aqua 0.17.3 from 3 years ago, without the disgusting restrictions; the last time X-Chat could be called "software", not an "app"... Atleast fork the project to have a functional build without the ridiculous policies, or are we just waiting for Hexchat to make this completely obsolete? Don't believe me? Go to the Github page and see for yourself how many orders of magnitude better the Aqua version really is.

  
  
• By Inertia186

  Very Nice, But Perl Is Nerfed

  I give the app five stars overall, but there's one thing that really needs to be looked at. Although perl scripts can run, if you have any perl dependencies, it becomes problematic. I use macports to fufill certain dependencies, but macports does not update the system version of perl. Macports naturally updates its own verion of perl. And XChat Azure does not ship with the ability to switch to this particular version of perl. Thus, if you want to use those fancy perl libraries, you must install them to the system version of perl or else your scripts won't run. It's a very minor complaint. The XChat Azure deveopment team has put a lot of effort into making sure at least the system version of perl works. And this is great! By the way, if you installed Mountain Lion, you'll have to wait for the next release to use Perl. They're on top of it, though. Good for them!

  
  

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