1.0 KVIrc Introduction
What
is KVIrc?: KVIrc
is not eatable but it is a multi language, graphical IRC
chat client
for Windows,
Linux, Unix
and MacOS.
Is free of charge,
easy to use and a real highlight for beginners, amateurs, and
professionals like to chill on IRC
experience. KVIrc
has more features
than you can think of, it has a highly configurable graphical
user
interface, support for DCC, drag
& drop, a own graphical emoticon
and avatar system, a built-in scripting
language named KVS
for extensions,
addons,
scripts
and much more, supports custom plug
ins and
is nearly a desktop
environment on its own. KVIrc
securely encrypting
communication between channel, query and DCC
Chat with Blowfish
or AES
/ Rijndael.
KVIrc
is able to connect to several servers
at the same
time, optional with SSL
and / or IPv6. Unicode, ISO-8859-*-Codes,
Asian
and windows-native char sets are supported. A special feature is the
smart encoding, which allows you to use 2 encodings at the same time;
you can send unicode and read unicode
and cp-1252
for example.- Full GUI Based configuration
- MDI floatable windows
- Built-in help browser
- Themes support (all configurable by GUI or scripting)
- Pseudo-transparency support (up to the desktop on KDE)
- Drag & Drop toolbar editing
- Activity Notifier Pop-Up
- Status bar with Applet support
- Unread text mark
- 14 Languages Translations
- Proxy support (SOCKSv4, SOCKSv5, HTTP)
- Full IPv6 support (also for DCC transfers)
- SSL support (also over IPv6)
- Mircryption support (Mircryption is an Open Source project, consisting of a variety of interrelated addons, programs, and scripts, that provide secure encryption for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
- Built-in scripting language interpreter
- +++ Scalars, Arrays and Hashes...
- +++ Aliases
- +++ Pop-Ups
- +++ Events
- +++ Scriptable Toolbars
- +++ Perl Support
- +++ Ability to translate scripts (by the means of the tr() function)