Almost 4 years ago I started tinkering with Quail which at that point had been abandoned for 8 years. Here are some notable changes I did besides doing various bug fixes:
- Qt6 port
- removed the dependency to Qt WebEngine
- added the ability to display inline images
- added a preference to show timestamps in conversations
- enabled sending multi-line messages
- added a preference for the position of the tab bar in the conversation window
- added unseen message detection
- added user role emblems
I don’t deem it end-user ready at this point but I’ve started using it daily for a couple of weeks for IRC mainly. There’s also another person using it with the purple-teams plugin.
I want to collect protocols and features known from Pidgin 2 here and their support status in Quail. This won’t be complete from the get go so feel free to ask about features not listed here.
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| libpurple IRC protocol | OK |
| purple-teams protocol plugin | OK |
| Plugin manager | Working on it currently |
| Debug window | N/A |
| Tab completing nick names in chats | OK |
| Show user info | N/A |
| Mark chat participants who left the chat | N/A |
| Message history | N/A |