I still find the rationale a bit skinny, personally. Like Andrew Conkling said, it's vital to have at least some way of connecting to IRC. Sure, GAIM does do this, but I don't understand how it isn't simply obligatory to include a program that specializes in providing access to a certain Internet protocol. By removing X-Chat as default application, Ubuntu will no longer have a specialized program to work with that protocol and more or less forces people to use a suboptimal alternative unless they go out and find a program that works better. It isn't as simple as "just installing it" if it's not known which application one needs to get.
I guess I can agree with the Live Support program covering a user's need to get support. -- No XChat in Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/38694 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
