From This Day

The time has come (or I just couldn’t wait any more) to give out fresh new qTwitter app. After 1.5 months of sleepless nights (btw: curse you, Finnish summer :P) I’m happy to welcome Identi.ca onboard. Apart from support for getting updates from and posting new ones to Identi.ca, additional missing features were provided, such as:

• favoring and disfavoring statuses,
• sending, replying and deleting direct messages.
• user info popups,
• recognizing hashtags.

User interface was significantly improved — three context-sensitive icons now allow for quick performing the most common actions on tweets and messages. The accounts settings page was revisited, compacted and made usable. Of course still no one will know that Ctrl+J shortens links :P Oh, by the way — URL shortening support was extended by 3 additional services, including my favorite tiny➡s!

Speaking of “computers”, the newest release needed a huge amount of code to be reorganized to provide better user experience of switching between currently displayed accounts. This allowed also to avoid some very uncool memory leaks. Another significant, but smaller amount of code was added in order to get Identi.ca working — laconi.ca’s Twitter-compatible API is being used and the support is well integrated inside libtwitterapi in order for others to be able to make use of it.

And from here I must give giant thanks to everyone involved in development, i.e. wiorka and wijet, and Flavio which made an effort to give qTwitter a decent look and feel on Maemo platorm. Thanks goes also to all translators, especially to Márcio Moraes and Alvaro Ortiz for fresh new Portuguese and Spanish translations.

Get your own qTwitter now from usual places — qt-apps.org for packages, github.com for sources. Enjoy!