… rather than soley "$APPDIR/protocols/". The vague "protocols/" leaf was also renamed to "cardie/".
This one borrowed from the Haiku tree― /data/artwork/icons/App_Chat
The IRC add-on previously used libircclient, which is becoming inactive, and newer versions don't compile on Haiku easily. A fresh rewrite seems to be a better option. So far it only supports basic connection and receiving the MOTD. :p