GNOME.org
 

Re: [orca-list] twitter app with orca

Sure, but honestly, even instantbird, the most well built of the gecko based chat clients I guess does not 
give good 
usability as there was no comfortable way to orient oneself in the displayed tweets. I suppose this could be 
fixed 
somehow, if not any other way by giving a vetical list view as an alternative, and if it could be fixed in 
anyway for one 
of these programs it could easily be fixed for them all I would think.

For now I can hardly justify installig anythig other than thunderbird which I already have. It's rock solid 
stable of 
course. Instantbird has promise, but even after the five years I've known about it there are really no new 
extensions for 
it, so functionality is not exactly robust. It's fine for simple chat on services like facebook, , yahoo 
g-talk..., but 
againk, so is thunderbird. Not really logical to run a separate client as switching to another window is no 
easier than 
switching to a chat tab in t-bird, or chat window if one is a tab hater. 
I've not tried instantbird since sometime last fall I guess, so if anything's been added to it, or if 
corebird is ow 
getting more love, well, let us know about it someone. I won't bother to install these programs until I hear 
of something 
new and interesting. 
I really want pidgin to get a working plugin again as it is certainly comfortable to use. The twitgen plugin, 
the actual 
package may have been called soething else, or maybe it got put in to main pidgin code/don't remember, did 
not do 
everything one could want, but was fine for replies, rt's and opening URLs linked to in tweets, no need to 
remember codes 
either.
I can't remember the name of the last one I built from source that worked once after each authorization, but 
it also had a 
couple of nice features as I recall.
There was a guy I know on twitter who was going to port a pythonbsed windows-only client to Linux sometime, 
but have not 
heard anythig about that in half a year. I'll try and find out if that's still likely to happen, or if there 
are problems 
on windows taking up all of the devs time. 
I don't even know if there are any inaccessible twitter clients for Linux GUIs that are worth using. 
 

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:03:56AM -0500, Nolan Darilek wrote:

I also had reasonable luck with Corebird. Basic Twitter participation
worked, but tabbing into tweets broke. Things also got a bit unstable after
a while. Might be worth a look and chat with the developers about fixing the
relatively minor access issues I encountered.

On 7/17/2014 10:24 AM, B. Henry wrote:

No, no twitter clients.
Gwibber can be used, or at least could with precise and vinux4, but it's less than ideal.
Another solution that's not great if you get lots of tweets is to set up twitter with thunderbird's native 
chat
functionality, and instantbird is similar but a chat only mozilla application.
Many of us use ttytter. It is commandline, but can be run well from a gnome or other terminal emulator and 
has some
extensions that work nicely in the gui. I use it in vt consoles myself however. It takes a bit of getting 
used to as you
use two character codes to work with tweets, i.e. you have a tweet labeled as e5. They go in order from a0 
from the time
you log-in to a session. So to retweet you do something like
/rt e5
or to reply
/reply e5 Are you crazy? I'd never use anything but #ttytter!
Actually, I've set up t-bird, but seldom use it as tweets display in a screenreader unfriendly grid and I 
get more than a
thousand a day. I also use bitlbee for twitter, but it doesn't do as much as ttytter which can do almost 
anything that is
possible with twitter and similar services. Bitlbee lets you rt, reply and a couple other things, but with 
ttytter you can
open urls directly, do easy searches and get tweets for a specific user, etc.
All the pidgin pluggg-ins for twitter were broken last I tried, and I even built some from source. One 
kind of almost
worked, at least let me log-in once, but then would not after restarting pidgin, so I'm sure some one who 
studied the
twitter api mess could fix one or more of the plug-ins but guess no one cared enough. On the other hand, 
it's not that
easy  dealing with twitter I guess from what I hear.
HTH
--
B.H.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:20:47PM +0800, Amir wrote:

Hi,
i want to use twitter with orca. i don't want to open and use the site
twitter but want to use the twitter software. i tried thunderbird but can't
read the tweets even though i've connected the account. any suggestions?
thanks!

On 7/16/2014 4:19 PM, lJason White wrote:

Hello all,

How do I convert a LibreOffice Impress document to an easier to read format
such as HTML, or read it within LibreOffice?

LibreOffice allows me to export it in various format, all designed for
presentations - HTML and even plain text aren't offered.

The default view in LibreOffice doesn't seem to give me access to the content
under Orca 3.12.1 and LibreOffice 4.2.5.

To make Impress presentations accessible, it used to be necessary to run the
Presenter Console, which is now, apparently, included in LibreOffice.
According to my Web searches, the presenter console appears if you have a
second monitor attached to the machine, which is not feasible here.

Suggestions welcome. This should have a simple answer but I haven't found it.

_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

-- 
Sincerely,
Amir.
Email:
mrdin8877 ymail com
twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/amir442
--------

_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

!DSPAM:53c7eb6212869049822623!



_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]