Mauku is the micro-blogging application for Maemo devices. It has a long history since Nokia 770 times. The earlier version 0.x is targeted for legacy devices (770, N800 and N810), and supports Jaiku and Twitter.

Now I proudly present Mauku 2.0 beta 1 for Fremantle! It utilizes the new Microfeed backend (maemo.org Talk thread). Mauku 2.0 supports Twitter and compatible services, such as Identi.ca and Qaiku, currently, but it expected to be support also, for example, Facebook later.

Mauku 2.0 application is specially designed to follow Fremantle style and user interface principles. Here are some screenshots:









Mauku 2.0 beta 1 is available in extras-devel (Fremantle), and soon in extras-testing (package version says alpha 1, but it is actually beta 1 ), After starting the application, be sure to configure publishers. You can access the configuration from the window menu of the main window (click window title > Publishers).

Exciting! Mauku is my most useful app. Great work once again, hhedberg!

Do you have plans for a twitter RT feature?

Look at the last screenshot: "Forward". It is a generic name for retweet (because the application will support also other services than Twitter).

Good job!!

Thanx

Okay I'm back on the Tablet scene again after getting a N800 donated to me, so how do I install Fremantle or can I just install the new Mauku by adding the repos to app manager?

You'll need to have physical access to whatever the next tablet is going to be because Freemantle will not run on the current generation of tablets.

It seems that you are using section user/social in your packages. This is not one of the allowed sections and this will block promotion for your package.

Duh... I took the category from some maemo.org wiki page, but it seemed to contain deprecated information. I will change it to user/network in beta 2, which will be out most probably within one week.

After installation there is no icon launcher showing app. Not even after rebooting. You have to reboot through command line.

It works! From the point of view of functionality it looks ready for extras-testing.

There is still that minor bug of having upper case for the first character in the password field.

It would be nicer if http:// @ and # string would be actual links...

EDIT: and while I was writing this... Crash Reporter says

Actually the Mauku widget has some tendency to crash, I guess because the bug is in the backend anyway.

Will it support multiple links on a tweet? Will it allow you to open a specific link?