Il 26/11/2025 21:20, Jeremy Bícha ha scritto:
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
About pidgin I don't use it and I haven't looked for alternatives. From what I understood, years ago it was still quite widely used and had plugins for many things. I'm not sure what the current situation is, whether it's actually still widely used and quite good or if there are better alternatives.
I still use Hexchat on a daily basis. I looked at alternatives a while back, but they didn't seem good enough and/or I didn't have enough time to do a thorough research. As far as I know, there are still other users who use it regularly, even though it's no longer maintained upstream. I've seen many forks with additional commits but none without significant enough development. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to do further research anytime soon.
If someone have any suggestions for replacements (hopefully without causing problems for users) or other changes to improve this metapackage, they are welcome.
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