Circ - Yet Another Irc Client

Introduction

Circ is an IRC client written in C# using the Mono Plateform. It has been designed from the ground up to be very extensible : you can choose different IRC engines (backends), use different interface (frontends) and extend Circ with plugins. It use the excellent Mono.Addins for addins loading and management. Currently Circ is shipped with an homemade IRC library as the main backend and with a GTK# frontend as the main interface. D-Bus integration is provided with plugins.

Circ is released under the GNU LGPL.

Usage

Currently the default GTK# interface is more a proof-of-concept than anything else. In other terms you have to use command to do what you want in Circ. Here are the usual commands you might find useful :

/c irc.yourserver.org yourNick : this command connects you to a server with the specified nick.
/j #yourchannel : this command makes you join the specified channel.
/n yourNewNick : use this command to change your nickname.

Current Features

Completly extensible, follow the PAC design pattern for the separation of code and interface
Small and fast IRC library for the main backend
A KISS-inspired interface for the main frontend (GTK#) which will later focus on usability (i.e. compliant with HIG)
Extendable with plugins (you can already do some stuff but expect the API to change)
LibContrast support : color shade are automatically computed for maximum readability

Future Features

Support for scripting (via Boo probably)
Provide a D-Bus API and integrate with other D-Bus software like Banshee, NetworkManager ...

Downloads

From Tarball
Circ 0.1 Alpha2
Circ 0.1 Alpha2 (binaries only)
From Mercurial repository
Mercurial repository : hg clone http://hg.sharesource.org/circ/
Mercurial web interface : http://hg.sharesource.org/circ/

About

Circ is developped by :

Jérémie Laval (see the 'About Me' section)