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

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

2008/8/3 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...

Too quick for myself there... They use the Open Micro Bloggin
protocol: http://openmicroblogging.org/

Cheers,
Mikkel