Finally Found Colloquy Developers on FreeNode
Today I finally found the Colloquy developers on FreeNode (IRC) because I wanted to start working on getting the latest Growl 1.3 working with Colloquy. I've spent a little of the last several days looking at the other Mac OS X IRC clients, and while there are a few that look OK, there's nothing that's as well-targeted for my needs as Colloquy. I looked at Textual IRC Client, and while it was reasonably minimal, it didn't have the configurability in the themes to make it really what I wanted. Basically, I want a small but readable IRC window that I can have up all the time to monitor all the development group chats that I monitor as part of what I consider to be "important to my life in the trenches". So if I can't change the font, or vertical spacing, it's possible that the client isn't going to be something I'm really interested in.
Thankfully, Textual IRC Client is available as a trial download, so I was able to try it without having to buy it on the Mac App Store. The same goes for the other one I seriously looked at - Linkinus. I have to say that this was a little closer to my liking, but again, there's no way for me to make a theme for it, and if that were the case, I'd have bought it.
It's got all I need - and to be fair, Textual IRC Client had most of what I needed, but in both, it's the visual representation that fell short. Neither seemed to have the ability to configure the theme to the level I wanted to get a view that would fit into what I had with Colloquy.
After all, the only real problem with Colloquy is the Growl 1.3 integration. Also, it seems that the updates for Colloquy have been few and far between, and with Lion, there are a lot of new features that probably need to be addressed. But on the whole, it's not a lot of changes.
So I set out to find the developers of Colloquy and see if I could get the code and work in the Growl 1.3 support. What I found was that Colloquy (#colloquy) and Growl (#growl) are on FreeNode, and that one of the Colloquy developers has already integrated the Growl 1.3 beta Framework, and he's just waiting for the Framework to be released. Wow. Sweet deal! This really help, as all I have to do is watch the chats for the release of the Growl 1.3 Framework and then the Colloquy guys will drop a new version, and I'll have everything I need.
Great news. Can't wait for the new releases.