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	euanandrews	2010-01-17 , 10:10
	Posts: 105 \| Thanked: 45 times \| Joined on Nov 2009 @ Wellington, New Zealand	#141

Originally Posted by dwould

the issue is not simply me not liking avatars, it is a question of how much development effort it would take to do any sensible implementation combined with it's effect on performance.
at the moment each tweet is a couple of hundred bytes. but an avatar pic is likely to be a couple of k, so adding the pick is massively adding to the memory usage per tweet.
you have to spawn threads to download the images. then figure out some storage. unless you want to download them fresh everytime. but if you store them you need some strategy to check for updates.
then i'd have to figure out how to get the cell renderer to actually show the images.
all so you there can be a little picture taking up screen space.

I understand your arguement...but please see the flip side...

I think your app has the potential to be the Maemo version of Gravity...you could make money, I certainly would be willing to pay for a decent twitter app...

But that said...its not only got to be usable, but pretty...and avatars and icons add that element.

Please consider it.

Otherwise, thank you for your prompt response, appreciate your comments

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	dwould	2010-01-17 , 22:38
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#142

Originally Posted by stobbsc

awesome thanks for search tip.
I think there might be a bug with the search notification. i always get a message saying new tweets for search blah blah blah. but when i check there aren't any new tweets.

Once again really thanks for the app

yeah, at the moment search is always a complete refresh. it throws away previous results and starts again. i suppose i could keep things but it hard to avoid duplicates. since it is something where the search criteria can change everytime. it was just easiest to discard and refresh. hence everytiime it gets 20 hits.

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If Witter isn't working for you, eg crashes/doesn't start, gives errors etc etc. Please run it from x-term using:
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This will generate diagnostic output. Without this I cannot help you.

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	dwould	2010-01-17 , 22:44
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#143

Originally Posted by euanandrews

I understand your arguement...but please see the flip side...

I think your app has the potential to be the Maemo version of Gravity...you could make money, I certainly would be willing to pay for a decent twitter app...

But that said...its not only got to be usable, but pretty...and avatars and icons add that element.

Please consider it.

Otherwise, thank you for your prompt response, appreciate your comments

sadly part of the conditions my employer placed on me getting involved in an opensource project was that i wouldn't make any money from it.
not sure how enforcable that is, but in any case ast i heard you couldn't gwt anything into the ovi store unless you are a company.

i do want to add icons, and work on things that will make it better for my usage. and it is open source, so i haven't ruled out others submitting features that I've not bothered to implement.

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stlpaul	2010-01-20 , 02:07
Posts: 1,141 \| Thanked: 781 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Magical Unicorn Land	#144

I can't install on my N900, it says python-simplejson is missing. Is that normal?

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	dwould	2010-01-20 , 08:12
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#145

Originally Posted by stlpaul

I can't install on my N900, it says python-simplejson is missing. Is that normal?

no that's not normal. the python-simplejson library should be availiable from the standard Extras repository. perhaps a temporary failure with that repository? you could check it's not disabled for any reason.

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stlpaul	2010-01-21 , 20:53
Posts: 1,141 \| Thanked: 781 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Magical Unicorn Land	#146

Originally Posted by dwould

no that's not normal. the python-simplejson library should be availiable from the standard Extras repository. perhaps a temporary failure with that repository? you could check it's not disabled for any reason.

You were right. Everything installed properly now. It must have been related to the servers being down over the weekend. Sorry for the false alarm!

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	RevdKathy	2010-01-23 , 20:43
	Posts: 2,173 \| Thanked: 2,678 times \| Joined on Oct 2009 @ Cornwall, UK	#147

Where should I go to give formal feedback on this app? I've been using it regularly for a while now, and would like to give it a positive vote.

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	dwould	2010-01-24 , 13:03
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#148

Originally Posted by RevdKathy

Where should I go to give formal feedback on this app? I've been using it regularly for a while now, and would like to give it a positive vote.

generally for any package you can go here: http://maemo.org/packages/
searc for the package you want to feed back on, select the version/repo combination and on that veraion you can vote and leave comments.

so for the most recent witter that is http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...itter/0.2.1-8/

however, everytime i upload a new version to testing it effectively loses the history of votes for a preious version.
which i find slightly weird.
and i am hoping to upload another big update at leas to devel later today. and assuming i can resolve some issues I'd promote to testing later in the week.

feedback on issues is always helpful, but I'm inclined to say hold off on votes until i have a version that looks good enough to be in extras.

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	RevdKathy	2010-01-24 , 16:56
	Posts: 2,173 \| Thanked: 2,678 times \| Joined on Oct 2009 @ Cornwall, UK	#149

Ok, Tell me when you want me to vote.

I put Witter on my homescreen alongside Mauku, since one was 'stable' and the other still in development. In practice, over the last couple of weeks I've found I no longer use Mauku at all: I simply prefer Witter. It has a better range of features - I am viewing DMs, mentions and search. It's slightly slower - you said that was down to it being python. To be honest, I notice it less now. Could optifying python have improved that?

Anyway, I'd like to vote for it because I find it excellent.

Edit - I just installed the new version: love the interface!

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Last edited by RevdKathy; 2010-01-24 at 17:22.