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

[Matthew Gregg <mcg braintube com>]

identi.ca currently supports the twitter api..
http://laconi.ca/Main/API

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 21:59 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 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
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