avojak/iridium

Native Linux IRC client built in Vala and Gtk for elementary OS

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iridium's Issues

Add ability to delete all saved data

Add an option (maybe in preferences?) to delete all saved data. The only saved data is really the light/dark mode and connection details, so this would entail:

• Resetting light/dark preference
• Resetting the default name/username preference
• Nuking the connection details from the database

Support SSL/TLS

Support connections over SSL/TLS. Might also add an option to the advanced connection settings for certificate validation (e.g. set_tls_validation_flags).

Download file support?

Are you planning on letting the software download files from channels?

Improve Channel Topic UI

The bar at the top of the chat view is pretty invasive. Would be nice to improve that.

Add OARS metadata

Hi! I noticed that you doesn't mention OARS information in your appdata.xml file. This is required in order to publish you app in the AppCenter.

You just have to add and complete the following lines to your file. Default is none. You can identify what you have to change in the following lines here https://hughsie.github.io/oars/generate.html 😉

You just have to add this and complete it to your appdata.xml file.

 <content_rating type="oars-1.1">
        <content_attribute id="violence-cartoon">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-fantasy">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-realistic">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-bloodshed">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-sexual">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-desecration">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-slavery">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="violence-worship">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="drugs-alcohol">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="drugs-narcotics">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="drugs-tobacco">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-nudity">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-themes">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-homosexuality">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-prostitution">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-adultery">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="sex-appearance">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="language-profanity">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="language-humor">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="language-discrimination">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="social-chat">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="social-info">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="social-audio">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="social-location">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="social-contacts">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="money-purchasing">none</content_attribute>
        <content_attribute id="money-gambling">none</content_attribute>
</content_rating>

I think this is mainly concerning the social part.

Support private sessions

Support opening in a private session, where no connection information, credentials, etc. are saved.

Display badge count of unread messages in the plank

Add the ability to display a badge count of unread messages on the icon in the plank.

• Might want to have this as a toggle (some users may find it distracting)

Add tests

Learn how to write tests in Vala and add some!

Integrate with OS notifications

Integrate with the OS notifications to alert users.

• Possibly only when tagged? Alerting on every message seems excessive.
• This would cover audio notifications as well

Display error indicator when connection fails during initialization

There should be some visual feedback (and messaging) when a connection fails during initialization.

Remember window size and position

Store the window size and position between launches

Appcenter Release?

Are you planning on releasing this to the appcenter?

Display date/time in chat views after some amount of time

After some amount of time it would be good to display the date and time when a new message is received.

Associate irc:// links to open in-app

Support opening the app via irc:// links.

Disconnect ghost sessions for NickServ

See: https://superuser.com/questions/90626/kill-ghost-on-connect-to-freenode-in-xchat

Might be able to do this automatically for connections that have a NickServ password configured.

Support SASL

Useful pages:

• https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.2
• https://gist.github.com/grawity/8389307

Rework view management

The current management of views and dialogs is very flimsy. For example:

• Closing the server connection dialog when the connection is successful
• Closing the channel topic edit dialog when the topic changes

These are not very robust, as they are influenced by external factors (what if a different connection is successful? What if someone else changed the topic out from under you?).

This needs to be reworked to something more deterministic. This should also lay the groundwork for better handling of the initialization workflow.

Lock scrolling when reading old messages

The auto-scrolling should be locked when reading old messages. It's very annoying to get auto-scrolled back to the bottom when reading conversation history.

Check UI against elementary HIG

Reminder to myself to double-check everything against the elementary human interface guidelines.

https://elementary.io/docs/human-interface-guidelines#human-interface-guidelines

Improve experience when closing/favoriting a channel

Currently when you favorite a channel, another view (some other channel or the server) will take the focus. This is not what you would expect - the channel should still be in the forefront after favoriting.

Similarly, when you close a channel, you don't expect it to still be visible (this is OK for leaving a channel, in my opinion).

Support multiple connections to the same server

Support the case where multiple users are used to connect to the same server.

Display warning when closing server connection

Should display a warning when closing a server connection because the connection data is erased.

Can add a "don't warn me again" option too.

Closing all connections shows incorrect header title

After closing all server connections so that there are no more channel views, the header bar will show a channel name (or maybe a server name). Instead it should show the application name again.

Blank entries in the channel user list

Some channels show blank entries in the user list.

1.0.0 Release checklist

Checklist of items to verify prior to 1.0.0 readiness:

• Ensure only required debugging/print statements to console and log (still print noisier output in dev mode for debugging)
• Update debian/changelog
• Set description in debian/control
• Set release version (meson.build, debian/changelog)
• Set release date (debian/changelog, appdata.xml)
• Use updated screenshots (data/appdata.xml)
• Set price
• Check POTFILES up-to-date

Private message chat view not disabled on server disconnect

When disconnecting from a server, any private message chat views are not disabled as they should be.

Allow changing username

Allowing changing username while still connected

Support /me actions

Support IRC action messages (e.g. /me)

see: https://www.livinginternet.com/r/ra_action.htm

Incorrect "Already connected to this server" message

1. Attempt connection to server
2. Connection times out (or fails silently, and UI keeps spinning)
3. Attempt to connect again
4. Connection dialog displays "Already connected to this server!"

Support operator actions

Support operator actions (kick, ban, etc.) and granting operator privileges to other uses. Should be integrated into the UI rather than via command only.

User quit message doesn't always appear

The user quit message doesn't always appear in a channel.

[FATAL 18:41:36.669963] gee_map_get: assertion 'self != NULL' failed
[WARNING 18:41:36.670054] MainLayout.vala:400: No chat view exists for chat.freenode.net, thedesertmonk

The log warning isn't unexpected, but the fatal error needs to be addressed, as well as whatever is causing the message to not appear.

Display available channel list

Add the ability to view channels that are available on the server

Cleanup nickname vs. username

Currently the nickname and username are used interchangeably throughout, but this is not correct. Typically only the nickname truly matters, so perhaps we should default the username to the nickname and only present changing the username under an "advanced" or other setting. This would cleanup the UI a bit as well.

Add Recent Connections option to Welcome view

Add an option to the welcome view to open a recent connection. This may be connections that are no longer in the server list, but were saved from before. Would require additional work to no completely remove the connection details when closing a connection. Might have to make this configurable, since it wouldn't be apparent to the user that connection information is still saved.

Support message formatting

See: https://modern.ircdocs.horse/formatting.html

Opening previous connections on startup closes server connection dialog

1. Have at least one previous open server connection and the app is closed
2. Open the app
3. Click the Connect to Server option from the welcome view
4. When the previous connection opens successfully the server connection dialog is closed

This is probably due to some bad assumptions and will need a re-work of the initialization workflow or the signal handling.

Display indicator for last read message

Add a visual indicator in the chat view to show which message was last read.

Add recent servers to the welcome view

Maybe display a couple recent servers to the welcome view? Would make it easy for a user to go back to a server they were on even after closing it from the side panel.

Add visual indicators for operator status

Add visual indicators to distinguish operator status. This would be in the user dropdown in the channel chat views.

Segfault when closing active, favorite channel

Workflow:

1. Join server
2. Join channel
3. Favorite the channel
4. Select the favorited channel to open the chat view
5. Right click on the channel row and select 'Close'

Settings schema 'com.github.avojak.iridium-dev' is not installed

Following the README instructions i get the following error:
Settings schema 'com.github.avojak.iridium-dev' is not installed

Any clues?

Thanks in advance,
Emiliano.

Use the display name provided by the server

In the side panel the server row should display the name given by the server (the NETWORK= part after connecting)

Use real logging

Use real logging instead of print statements!!!

In-app notification when mentioned in a channel

Display a toast notification (or something else) when mentioned in a channel.

• Still not 100% sold on this idea
• Might want to make it a preference

Enter key to submit dialog

Allow submitting dialogs via the Enter key.

Support multiple windows

Support opening multiple windows. Would add an item to the menu dropdown.

Badge for unread message count missing from private message rows

The badge for the unread message count is missing from private message rows

Errors when opening app with no enabled servers

This occurs with stored connection details, but the enabled flag is set to 0:

[WARNING 16:40:56.322152] MainWindow.vala:429: No connection details found for server: chat.freenode.net
[FATAL 16:40:56.322207] iridium_views_server_chat_view_construct: assertion 'nickname != NULL' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.322227] [GLib-GObject] g_object_ref_sink: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.322244] iridium_layouts_main_layout_add_server_chat_view: assertion 'view != NULL' failed
[WARNING 16:40:56.322281] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[FATAL 16:40:56.322317] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[WARNING 16:40:56.322352] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[FATAL 16:40:56.322387] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.322423] iridium_views_chat_view_set_enabled: assertion 'self != NULL' failed
[WARNING 16:40:56.330377] MainWindow.vala:445: No connection details found for server: chat.freenode.net
[FATAL 16:40:56.330421] iridium_views_channel_chat_view_construct: assertion 'nickname != NULL' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.330445] [GLib-GObject] g_object_ref_sink: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.330466] iridium_layouts_main_layout_add_channel_chat_view: assertion 'view != NULL' failed
[WARNING 16:40:56.330505] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[FATAL 16:40:56.330521] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[WARNING 16:40:56.330561] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[FATAL 16:40:56.330579] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[FATAL 16:40:56.330595] iridium_views_chat_view_set_enabled: assertion 'self != NULL' failed

Fix server messaging

Some of the messages from the server are cut-off during connection (number of operators, channels, etc.). This could also include better messaging for invalid server commands.

Allow suppressing of join/part messages

Add the ability to suppress join/part messages in channels.

• Should this be per-channel, per-server, or global?
• Is this a good candidate for a preference view?