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So is it just me, or does it really annoy anybody else that each and every app seems to want to have its own dictionary? How come this isn't centralized into one universally accepted format? Just today alone on my Kubuntu box, I have had to add my last name, Hildreth, to the Firefox browser, Open Office Word processor, and Dreamweaver (through Wine). When thinking back on it, I think I had to do the same thing when setting up my Macbook pro at work and my Windows XP/Vista boxes as well. Enough is enough people.

ONE UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY FOR ALL THE APPS TO USE NOW!

Taking a cue from my colleague from Dotted i Design, Michael Samuelson, I have gone a little bit charcoal rainbow crazy. The default color scheme in X-Chat leaves something to be desired if you are constantly looking at the screen. If you are like me, tweaking colors is one big rabbit hole! Once I started, I kept tweaking and tweaking for over an hour. Here is a screenshot of what I ended up with:

If anybody would like to use a similar color scheme in their copy of xchat, you simply need to replace the colors.conf file with the following values: