This seems like a decent idea. However, in order for the #ubuntu item to be useful, you'd have to have an IRC account already setup. If you can get that far, you'll probably be able to join #ubuntu. How about something like this: We add an option under the Help menu that says, "Ubuntu Online Chat" (or similar). If you select it and have an IRC account for irc.ubuntu.com (or irc.freenode.net or chat.freenode.net) it joins #ubuntu-$LANG as well as #ubuntu. * If you don't have such an account, it adds one for irc.ubuntu.com using your system username plus a random number (trimmed to the maximum FreeNode nick length minus 1) and then joins said channels. We may want to have it automatically add the channels to the buddy list at that point (and set a flag so it won't do it again, to allow people to delete them and not have them come back).
* LANG would need to be limited to two characters. You wouldn't use $LANG if it was for English. We may want a whitelist of acceptable languages (to avoid people ending up in rooms by themselves) or we may want to leave it wide open, so people will end up creating a room for their language when they join it and maybe meet other people that way. -- Hint: if you want, you can add #ubuntu by default to Pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194806 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
