Comment 19 for bug 38694

I think the problem here could be solved if gaim were to improve IRC support.

As it is now, gaim performs very poorly in large chatrooms, which is precisely the type of chatroom that Live Support will be using. There is a significant lag, it seems to use more resources, and there is no highlighting. In #ubuntu, it is very difficult to keep track of anything without highlighting.

It also defaults to too small a window size, and when the window is resized, the buttons become far too large.

If these issues were fixed, I think that removing xchat-gnome would be a good idea.