Re: [orca-list] orca support in empathy

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

Hi Henry,
I am very keen on Orca with twitter.
I tryed 5 months back and I could hardly do any thing on it.
Can you or any one update me with the status?
I was reading your email and got a bit confused with the options.
I wish to know if Pidgin has an option for twitter which really works well?
Or is the mobile version of twitter.com accessible?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Saturday 25 June 2016 01:29 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> It was pretty much the other way around, i.e. pidgin had more features than the competition.
> Thunderbird is a vible chat option for many networks, less features, but plenty good enough for most people. 
> I have used it for facebook, gtalk, and a
> couple others, maybe aim or yahoo/can't remember.
> Twitter works, but is not really usable if you get more than a few tweets an hour as the display is in a grid 
> and focus does not automatically go to last
> read or something. There was a good plug-in , well extension I guess, for windows only a few years ago, but 
> it like so many other good extensions broke
> with t-bird updates.
> Oh, irc is the other protocol that works well with thunderbird. I don't think aim will work as it uses oscar, 
> but not sure it does not.
> Features are limited, but for basic chat I find thunderbird fine/usually have a few accounts and one or two 
> irc chans set up just in case I want to use it.
> For those who use the commandline I highly recomend bitlbee. It is a very actively maintained program and 
> lets you use your favorite irc client, irssi is
> mine and probably the best over all for most folks, to connect to other chat protocols. It handles oscar 
> services like aim, xmpp and with a add on facebook
> chat. YOu can also set it up to connect to skype. That last one takes some doing, i.e. I'd not recommend it 
> to a novice who does not have time and or
> patience following instructions. You have to install skyped and get it set up and then connect to it with 
> bitlbee. I also use bitlbee to tweet. It works
> similarly to ttytter or oystter, i.e. you use tweet index codes, a letter and a number to say wich tweet you 
> are replying to or rt'ing, e.g. reply x2 Your
> tweet sounds like a crow with a sore throat dudette
> would reply to the  tweet with x2 as its code.
> It is a bit less versitile than oysttytter and ttytter, but does most of what you need, and you don'at have 
> to prefix commands with a slash in bitlbee in
> the default mode. There is a strict mode that makes it imposible to confuse commands with tweeted words as 
> well.
> a couple things are nicer with bitlbe twitter actually, and as you can automatically log with irssi and most 
> any irc client you can easily read stuff from
> hours or days ago with out opening a browser.
> Instant bird is another option, but it does little more than thunderbird, and never got enough community 
> behind it to write the extensions it would need to
> get in to pidgin's league of power and flexibility.
> Too bad there as it's basiclly a good program, and very accessible that looks the same on windows and linux 
> which is important to quite a few folks who use
> both os's regularly.
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