Bug 74387

Summary:	dishighlight state is not restored
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksirc	Reporter:	Matthias Posseldt <matthi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Andrew Stanley-Jones <asj>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	paul
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	patch for ksirc.pl

Description Matthias Posseldt 2004-02-06 19:06:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.3 
OS:          Linux

After joining channels /dishighlight is automatically switched off, i.e. highlighting is enabled: *lol* becomes lol in bold. Although /dishighlight mentions that the state will be saved, I have to /dishighlight manually each time I connect to a server.

/dishighlight (disabled) should be default, since it is not documented and there is no way to disable *g* -> bold(g) substitution in ksirc's options.

I also found a typo:  "Hightlight parsing: Disabled" should be "Highlight parsing: Disabled" (w/o the "t")

Comment 1 Mark 2004-03-11 17:40:07 UTC

I can confirm this. My KSIRC from CVS (at home) and in KDE 3.2.1 (at work) does this as well. I agree that the default behaviour should be "Highlight parsing: Disabled".

Comment 2 Matt McClare 2004-03-19 02:00:29 UTC

I'll confirm this too, ksirc 3.2.1 from the kdenetwork-3.2.1 package in Gentoo's portage tree. The default should really be too turn this off, and/or provide an option somewhere to twiddle this setting.

Comment 3 Paul Brook 2005-09-20 00:00:49 UTC

Created attachment 12630 [details]
patch for ksirc.pl

Comment 4 Paul Brook 2005-09-20 00:03:28 UTC

The attached patch fixes a the bug which was preventing ~/.ksirc_highlight being read properly. I'm not a kde developer so someone else will have to take care of getting the patch applied.

Comment 5 Paul Brook 2006-10-16 19:21:53 UTC

Ping.
This is a straightforward bug with a simple and obvious fix.

Comment 6 Dario Andres 2010-02-20 19:29:25 UTC

KSIRC was confirmed to be unmaintained, and its main developer is not reachable.
Closing as UNMAINTAINED.

I suggest all the users to try other KDE IRC client alternatives like Konversation, Aki, or the Qt-only Quassel.

Regards