When comparing Nettalk vs Konversation, the Slant community recommends Nettalk for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” Nettalk is ranked 14th while Konversation is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Nettalk is:
Nettalk can be set up to overlay incoming messages. Especially useful for games.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can overlay incoming messages
Nettalk can be set up to overlay incoming messages. Especially useful for games.
Pro Built-in spellcheck
Pro Free and open source
Pro Multi-lingual interface
Nettalk is available in English, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Hungarian and German.
Pro Easy interface
Simple and good looking interface.
Pro Encryption support
Pro Scriptable
Pro Functionality can be extended via plugins
Pro Regularly maintained
Konversation is still being updated with new features and bug fixes. Konversation 1.5(released January 15, 2014) has added plenty of major features.
Pro Notifications
Konversation has an OSD(On Screen Display) feature that gives you an overlay message anytime your nick is mentioned. This means you won't be interrupted from your work and reduces the need to keep the window open.
Pro Plenty of useful smaller features
Koversation is full of features to make IRC simpler and smoother. It comes with tools like a channel bookmarker, the ability to insert special characters easily and the "URL catcher", which gives quick access to any links mentioned in the channel.
Pro Quick Buttons
The Quick Buttons features allows you to set a button to any IRC command that you frequently use. It has several defaults such as whois, and kick but a button can be created for any command you need.
Pro Very professional UI design
Cons
Con No longer developed
Development ceased some time ago (2012).
Con Poor log management
It stores all logs in one file in a custom format.
Con German language
Is primarily a German language client, so the spell check, etc. is in German.
Con Updating to a new version overwrites configuration settings
Colors, fonts and autojoin behaviors may be customizable, but backing up the settings prior to updating the software is imperative.