Tweet

About

Tweet is a simple desktop client for the Twitter messaging service. Tweet is written in C using GNOME platform libraries like:

• GLib

• GTK+

• LibSoup

and other GNOME-related libraries like:

• JSON-GLib

• Clutter

Tweet uses Clutter as an hardware accelerated canvas for parts of its user interface; this requires a working OpenGL implementation.

Twitter-GLib

Twitter-GLib is the library used by Tweet to retrieve and update the Twitter status. Twitter-GLib uses LibSoup to access the RESTful API exposed by Twitter, and JSON-GLib to parse the JSON data streams returned by Twitter.

Twitter-GLib is installed system-wide with Tweet and can be used to build new applications interfacing with Twitter.

Development

Tweet is developed on a git repository hosted on Github; the master tree is viewable here and can be cloned using

  git clone git://github.com/ebassi/tweet.git

You can send me patches using git-format-patch or direct me to a tree I can pull from.

You can follow the development on the Tweet ohloh page.

Releases

0.2.0 - first alpha release download here

Screenshots

• Tweet main window

Screencast

Copyright and Licensing

Tweet is Copyright (C) 2008 Emmanuele Bassi

Tweet is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) later.

Twitter-GLib is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

Author

Emmanuele Bassi

To Do

• --An icon for Tweet--
• Show error messages in the UI instead of the console
• --Add key bindings-- (done)
• --Add a toolbar-- (done)
• --Use nm-glib to find out whether we have network support-- (done)

• Use LibUnique to handle a single instance

• Show followers and following
• Show the timeline of a single user
• Add more details to the status info overlay (protected, following)
• Add a button for opening a browser at the status page
• Add a button for stop following a user
• Add a button for direct messages