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

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2008/8/2 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.
>

Well. If I may :-) I was uncertain as to what the conclusion of our
discussion was.

I don't know whether to include the Jaiku handler..?

I have not been able to determine whether identi.ca has a public API...

I can probably merge it some time this week.

Cheers,
Mikkel