[Gsoc] IRC Activity fixes

[Michał Poczwardowski]

Hello Sugar Devs,

My name is Michal Poczwardowski, 23, Poland. I am interested in taking
part in this year's Google Summer of Code. In short, I was GSoC
student in 2011 and 2012 (for Tcl/Tk and BlueZ). More details on the
website[1]. Regarding this particular idea - I'm familiar with Python
and IRC protocol.

I'm a regular IRC user and have few new ideas regarding IRC Activity.
As sugar channels reside at freenode, It would be nice to have
NickServ support build-in. Also, when ordinary IRC users use screen
with console client, It would be great to have awaylog that displays
our hilights even when we are not present. This feature could be turn
on only for registered nicks and some webservice + irclogs will be
involved. For example: when user joins channel, IRC Activity could
show all hilights since user's last visit, of course with reasonable
time/messages limit.

I've found library[2] that could be used to replace deprecated Urk.
Also implementing notifications and improving performance will be my
priority.

I will be grateful if you could give me some feedback to ideas provided.

Thanks,
Michal

[1] http://dmpgsoc.azalayah.net/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-irclib/files/

dmp at freenode