Channel settings
When you join a channel for the first time Snak creates a record for it in the
preferences and stores whatever font, background color and voice assignment was
set as the default at the time.
To modify the settings you can use the Channel Settings dialog that is accessed
from the menu item under the Edit menu, or by clicking on the channel topic.
In addition to the settings mentioned above the dialog is also used to control
and display characteristics of the channel when the connection is online. These
characteristics include the mode of the channel, the topic and the list of banned
users.
In order to make changes in these characteristics you will need to have operator
status in the channel. Channel operators have special privileges and are responsible
for channel maintenance. You will only become a channel operator in an existing
channel if the other operators have known you a long time and you are a respected
member of the channel.
Visible activity
This setting controls if Snak should displays the various non-conversational messages
that the IRC server sends. If you are in a very large channel (200 members or
so) then the coming and going of people can completely drown out the normal conversation.
In that case you would open the channel settings and turn off the display of Join
, Leave and Quit messages. If that is still not enough then you can turn off the
last server messages, so that you are left with just the normal conversation.
Options
This setting control how Snak presents the channel windows and how it should handle
color messages. The most popular PC client mIRC sends color information differently
than Macintosh clients,
Mode
The concept of channel modes and the meaning of the various flags is fully explained
in the chapter on the intermediate IRC commands. When you make changes in the
channel modes from this dialog, Snak will build a command that is sent to the
server when you close the dialog. You can only do this if you have channel operator
status in the channel.
As explained in the intermediate IRC command chapter there can be many different
channel modes and the dialog only provides access to the most common ones. If
the server provides modes that are not covered here you can just use the /mode
command to set or clear the flags manually.
Topic
Usually, changing the channel topic (the descriptor line that is displayed in
the channel window) can only be done by a channel operator. If you are so lucky
then you can change the channel topic from this dialog.
You can also set the channel topic outside of this dialog with the /topic command.
/topic new topic will set the topic to "new topic" if you have the right
to do so. If not then the server will politely tell you that you are not a channel
operator so you can’t do that.
Ban List
As explained later, in the chapter on intermediate IRC commands, channel operators
can ban certain people from entering a channel by issuing a ban command.
This command takes the form of "/mode #channel +b <nick>". In
Snak you can manage the ban list and, issue, edit and remove bans much more easily
from the ban list in the channel settings. This feature only works if you have
channel operator status.
Channel settings