Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

I installed it, and nice to see the twitpic function there already! This is what I want, a simple twitter client :)

Here is some feedback from a first time user:

- I had a problem with logging in. I didn't get any notification if it worked or not, and after a few attempts to figure out what happened I saw that the password field changed the first character to a uppercase..
- Its a litte hard to see who is writing what. So maybe change background color on every second tweet to the color you're using on the buttons? Or something to make it stand out better.
- What about twitter's blue color on the URLs and mentioned nicks ?
- And maybe the "posted on ..." text could be smaller/colored/something
- The url/user actions popup is ok, but is suppose to pop up where my finger/stylus is? Its popping up in the left top corner on my n900.
- The url is opening in the same browser window I already had up. You should make it open in a new window, I'm not finished reading the window I had up :p
- The possibility to see what pic you're uploading before choosing it. (Maybe this isn't possible, it seems to use a default file browser?)

:)

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

getting application launching to work properly is driving me crazy.
I thought I had it right, by removing the X-Osso stuff from the .desktop file. but that stopped working.
I've since tried a bunch of combinations of values in the desktop file and service file. tried a context value with and without .'s in it. with and without com.nokia pre-fix.

this is the most frustrating thing I've found in maemo development. made most frustrating by zero feedback and no apparent place to find a log of why it's not working.

any help on diagnosing failure would be great.

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

ok. 0.1.0-12 is now in extras-testing. I think application launcher is working again. but since I don't understand why it stopped working, and I'm not sure why it is working now, I'm not as confident in it as I should be.

it features a new layout for the tweet text. no more two columns with screen name separate. it now uses pango markup to have one column and make the screen name blue, whilst the tweet should be some default colour. and the timestamp is now small.

I have no idea how to work with themes, so if it looks wrong in different ones...sorry.

it also now gives a little more feedback on errors. it will prompt for credentials on first launch. and it should pop up error codes if there is a problem talking to twitter.

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

what a great little application :)seem to be a few issues, and it's not hugely user friendly.
The tweets load fine, but having no luck on the mentions/DM's or friends at the moment.

Loving the twitpic integration! well done

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

Forgot to add the Login box is a little strange, seems to have "insert turned on" so when i made a mistake, was easire to delete it all and start again,

Also the first password character is capitalized - wondered why it was telling me i got my password wrong :)

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

i tried to figure out how to stop this from happening. anyone know a setting for gtk.entry in python that willswitch this behaviour off?

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

weird... any chance you can run it from a terminal ('witter') and tell me if it gives out errors when you try to load the dms/mentions etc. it works fine for me, but it's possible something in your feeds is tripping it up.

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

bear with me, my first terminal usage! :)

Well it loaded fine from terminal

Auto-logged in which was fine.
Clicked timeline, can see all the tweets.
If i click mentions, i get nothing - just a blank screen (Shown below)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/...c28d7635_o.png
same with direct mentions, search and friends.

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

so nothing came out in the terminal?

it has just occured to me that there is an aspect of userfriendlyness that I've probably overlooked.

when you load the timeline. it *only* loads that timeline. if you switch to another view, it will be blank until you hit refresh.

I didn't want to be slow loading all the data behind all the views if people didn't necessarily want it. It's part of my choice not to auto-refresh either.

Perhaps I should put a default entry on each screen that says 'hit refresh to load data'

of course if that isn't the problem, then I really would have expected information in the terminal when you hit refresh.

Re: witter - a python twitter client
 

Dohhhhhh it was just me using your app wrong! i didn't realise i had to hit refresh to show the mentions, dm's, friends etc!

As a user i would expect the refresh to happen when i hit the actual tools button - ie, when i hit mentions, it refreshes and loads the mentions.

That was you can remove the refresh button entirely.
Also, i think maybe a mini loading icon/image may be needed. when i hit refresh, i really wasnt sure it was doing anything for about 6-10 seconds. Once i figured it out once, it was fine :)