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===Why don't you support IRC===

We used to, and on a technical level we do support it.

IRC and IM have very different usages, so whilst we are a good IM client that I like using, none of the developers used it for IRC. 

For good IRC support we need NickServ we need the IRC ommands like "/join" we need to be able to lurk in many many channels and so on, everything is a little bit different. KDE already has two fantastic IRC applications; Konversation and Quassel. KDE on the whole gains nothing if we try and be in competition with Konversation. 

We were getting bug reports/wishlists on IRC requests, and we took a decision that rather than giving users a bad IRC experience, it would be better to simply not support it. This allows us to focus on the IM parts that aren't being covered elsewhere.

===When will you reconsider this decision===

We will  rediscuss it at the next Akademy.

We support jabber chat rooms which have an overlap of usages, so our IRC support is steadily increasing anyway.

===Can I enable it anyway?===

If you want to help hack on IRC support, sure. If you look in accounts-kcm code, it is pretty obvious how to re-enable it. We will help merge patches, but not accept bug requests.

To enable anyway, kill mission-control-5 and run this:

[code]
mc-tool add idle/irc Freenode string:account=$USER-ktp string:server=irc.freenode.net
[/code]

It will now appear in your Accounts for you to edit