Re: [Deskbar] Twitter handler, and tricks for web-app modules

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb:
> Hi list, a good while since I have been around here. Sorry for that :-)
>
> I recently did a massvie update of the old Twitter handler. See here:
> http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=276. Actual code here:
> http://grillbar.org/files/twitter.py
>
> I would like to submit it for general inclusion in deskbar. There is a few
> things I would like to change before I do that though.
>
> If you look at the actual code you will find a few things that might be very
> handy for other web-app based modules:
>
>  * Embedded base64 icon loading. I suggest moving a version of my
> load_base64_icon() to deskbar.core.Utils. This makes it easily possible to
> ship custom icons embedded directly in your python scripts.
>
>  * The Account, AccountDialog, and GnomeURLopener. These are classes that
> integrates Gnome Keyring with urllib (for username/pass retrieval) as well
> as doing async http communication (I need to do async POSTs in the
> Action.activate()). I suggest I put this in a new Python module
> deskbar.core.Web or something.
Are you still planing to include this into final 2.24? Keep in mind that 
on August 18th UI freeze begins.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl