Bug 366408

Summary: Make default channel in config file for distros to override
Product: [Applications] konversation Reporter: Jonathan Riddell <jr>
Component: generalAssignee: Konversation Developers <konversation-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: hein, justin.zobel, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
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Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonathan Riddell 2016-08-04 14:42:49 UTC 
Debian and other distros patch Konversation to change the default IRC network and channel

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-kde/kde-extras/konversation.git/tree/debian/patches/debian_channel.diff

Since patches are evil it would be nice if Konversation had a config file by default which could be easily patched.  (You can see this patch is incorrect as it doesn't change the network name.)

Also the default channel might be better as a user support channel such as #kde


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-08-04 18:19:33 UTC 
I don't get this request. The C++ code only runs when there's no config file. You can override it with a config file.
Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2020-11-30 02:50:28 UTC 
I'd suggest if distros want it for user support they just have a "Help Chat" link that runs konversation with --server --port and --channel in the exec line of the .desktop file.