Source: cinnamon-desktop-environment Version: 6.4.1 Tags: forky sid X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
I noticed that cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends gtk2 apps. I expect that the bugs for those apps will be raised to severity: serious later this year and the apps eventually removed from Testing. hexchat is unmaintained and archived upstream. https://bugs.debian.org/1120756 pidgin has a gtk4 version as a "pre-alpha" but it hasn't been packaged even for Experimental yet. https://bugs.debian.org/883214 . My guess is that Debian's pidgin could switch to this version in time for Debian 14; whereas hexchat looks unlikely to be fixed. I do not have a recommended alternative. Polari is a GNOME IRC app, but it didn't work for me when I tried it this week. I assume that Quassel works, but it's an app for KDE. (KDE also has Konversation for IRC.) Empathy was a GNOME alternative to Pidgin but it was removed from Debian years ago since it was abandoned and no longer worked. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
