A "Slack" inspired theme that pushes the boundaries of the Shout IRC Client. The current Shout build does not support a theme this drastic yet, but there is a branch of Shout under development that does :)
Thanks for your interest, but not much has happened over the last month (May - June). Dev will resume, and it will be finish soon, hopefully. Ping @bnvk and help lend a hand ;)
To install and use this theme in your Shout client do the following:
git clone http://github.com/erming/shout -b theme-support
cd shout
npm install
node index.js config
node index.js
(Ignore for now, you need to install the theme first)Now it's time to install the Slick theme
cd themes
git@github.com:opensourcedesign/slick.git
node ~/shout/index.js config
on MacOS or Linuxtheme: {
name: "slick",
title: "Your Site or Name",
channels: true
}
cd ../
node index.js
Still very much a work in progress... lend a hand :)
To help develop the Slick theme, you will need to run Grunt to recompile the JS and styles
cd themes/slick
foldernpm install
bower install
grunt watch
hangs & listens for updates to filesviews/*.tmp
files run grunt build
The main inspiration for this theme is to close the gap between open source devs and designers. A lot of devs and Debian users still love IRC. However, a lot designers (and an increasing number of devs) are liking Slack (and other similar GUI chat clients) more and more. The goal of Slick is to improve IRC's usability to match that of Slack.
Until the Slick theme is totally ready, you can use this web interface for our chat room.
If you know how to use IRC, you can also just connect to #opensourcedesign on freenode.net using your normal IRC client ;)