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Re: witter - a python twitter client

Hello after the update I'm unable to open witter.. When I click it starts loading , it suddenly exits and returns to desktop.. Any ideas?

I do not have too many widgets on desktop..

Re: witter - a python twitter client

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Originally Posted by jasonflemyng (Post 708416)

Hello after the update I'm unable to open witter.. When I click it starts loading , it suddenly exits and returns to desktop.. Any ideas?

I do not have too many widgets on desktop..

I had to remove the .witter files from /home/user/ to make mine work after a previous update. Not sure which fixes it as I removed all of them

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Thanks for the reply but there is no .witter files at that directory...

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Originally Posted by dwould (Post 707721)

I honestly don't know what causes this, I'm probably doing something wrong with gtk. It happens to all dialog boxes with input fields, as opposed to stacked windows etc.
I'm open to suggestions on what causes this and how I might fix it.

Yep, no matter how I've tried, I still haven't got one single twitpic posted on this application. It's a dealbreaker really. If it worked as Gravity did, easily and seamlessly, I might even buy it.

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Originally Posted by demos (Post 708500)

Yep, no matter how I've tried, I still haven't got one single twitpic posted on this application. It's a dealbreaker really. If it worked as Gravity did, easily and seamlessly, I might even buy it.

Or you could use the twit pic plugin through pixelpipe if it is such a big deal.

Imjussayin'

Re: witter - a python twitter client

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Originally Posted by jasonflemyng (Post 708416)

Hello after the update I'm unable to open witter.. When I click it starts loading , it suddenly exits and returns to desktop.. Any ideas?

I do not have too many widgets on desktop..

version?
results of running witter from xterm? (run-standalone.sh python2.5 /opt/witter/witter.py)

without information I can't even begin to guess. sorry.

Re: witter - a python twitter client

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Originally Posted by demos (Post 708500)

Yep, no matter how I've tried, I still haven't got one single twitpic posted on this application. It's a dealbreaker really. If it worked as Gravity did, easily and seamlessly, I might even buy it.

so the problem with the dialog not oppening again doesn't stop you posting the first twit pic.

just enter the text you want to tweet with your picture, then go select your picture through the twitpic dialog and hit the twitpic button to submit. It works for me....

on another note, if this app worked as well as a pay-for app on symbian you 'might' consider buying it? that's not great incentive. I have provided a means for those that appreciate my efforts to 'but me a pint' via my blog, this in no way pays for the crazy amount of time I spend on this, but it does make me feel like that time is appreciated.
If you could tell me how to make the hildon file picker dialog actually work from python (which I've failed to do so far) that would help in making the twit pic thing work nicer.

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Originally Posted by biggzy (Post 707789)

Hi dwould, here are the fixed user history icons for the touch theme.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/399...0060921362.png

Attachment 10838

Regards,
Biggzy.

cheers, the update will make it into the next version, just debugging some changes that allow for retaining search history as you repeat searches etc. and want to get a fix in for persisting the gesture preference setting.

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Originally Posted by markusm (Post 708296)

Technically I have no idea - I'm a UI designer - not a programmer. But that's where they 'belong' ;)

If you checkout the pics that I made there is a 'refresh' button on the right side of the toolbar. As I said - moving the 'more' options to the end of the messagelist and eliminating the need for fullscreen frees up two buttons. In their place would be the text box toggle ('new tweet') and refresh.

If you get a chance make a private test with the icons on the bottom. You'll see that it's very handy - especially when you've got the keyboard open. Also if you were to remove the button graphics and replace them with only icons this would give skin makers even more possibilities.

But as you said stabilizing the code is key. Witter is already a remarkable piece of work especially while it's free. I'm just hoping that somewhere along the line there will be time to add some visual tweaks here and there to polish it it up ;)

The problem is that I'm using gtk, and there are limits to what I can configure, so for instance I can't remove the button graphic behind the icon. that's just a hildon button and I get no option.

so it's not really a case of 'tweaks' it would be a massive rewrite of the entire UI to use some technology that lets me draw it from the ground up, which given I have no idea how to do it, would probably take months before there was even anything really to show. In the meantime witter would get no new features.
maybe if someone can give me pointers in how to do more 'cool' ui stuff in Python to get me started.. that would help.

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Originally Posted by dwould (Post 698617)

I assume you are using the vesion from the main extras repository. the latest versions in testing/devel have a vibrate and led flash alert for mentions and dm's (but still no sound yet)
i'm hoping to get a new version to the main repository in the next few weeks

Are you planning on including an option to disable this notification? I tend to leave witter running when I'm not really paying attention to the phone and don't necessarily want it buzzing (e.g. in a meeting). Also, the alert messages don't aggregate but appear individually, so if I've been away from the phone for a bit I might have 5 or 6 "you have received one new mention" messages on my screen, which seems excessive.

Overall, though, I like the improvements that witter has been seeing lately.