From This Day

It’s been a while since qTwitter 0.5.0, but I hope the list of improvements and new features can make up for that time. So now with qTwitter we get:

• support for using multiple accounts,
• integrated support for URL shortening, using the most popular services,
• more intuitive interface, including configurable notifications and warning dialogs, keyboard shortcuts for virtually every action in the application, and an animated icon showing update progress,
• more translations – added German, French and Japanese ones.
• tons of bugfixes (changelog covers most important ones).

Two people joined me lately to create the development team, welcome wiorka and wijet!
Huge thanks goes to:

• translators – DarkAdmiral for the German translation, Maciej Dębiński for the Japanese and both wiorka and Harry for the French one,
• testers – Harry and PMG for finding and reporting tens of issues.

Also, a bug tracking system was launched some time ago, so everyone in a need of filing a bug report or requesting a new feature is warmly welcome to visit qTwitter’s Lighthouseapp.

As for coding, there is a prototype of a Qt library for connecting to Twitter, sending requests and processing server replies. qTwitter 0.6.0 is now interacting with Twitter through this library. Both qTwitter and libtwitterapi are licensed LGPL and can be reused according to this license.

qTwitter 0.6.0 can be obtained from usual places:

• qt-apps.org, available for Windows, MacOS X and most popular Linux distros,
• Gentoo users can install net-im/qtwitter from layman’s qting-edge overlay.
• Code for qTwitter and libtwitterapi can be simply checked out from GitHub:
  git clone git://github.com/ayoy/qtwitter.git

Happy twitting! :)