From This Day

Few weeks ago I was about to start working on qTwitter 1.0-like but then I got a bit busy with life and I ended up bugfixing 0.9.0 release. And that was even better idea. I received some complaints (still not too much – this surprised me a bit) about qTwitter crashing after an update. That’s because I wanted very much to provide seamless config file conversion between versions. In theory it should work, but there were a few gotchas, causing a real mess from time to time.

Starting from 0.9.1, all the accounts settings from <0.9.0 versions are deleted and users have to setup their accounts once again. I know that's not polite, but I want to avoid mysterious config-related crashes, and still, I bet that accounts settings can be recreated easily and quickly :)

• configurable tray icon visibility (always vs. when minimized),
• configurable close button behavior (hiding vs. closing),
• dock icon in OS X—comes together with the unnecessary menu bar, but still it’s better to have qTwitter available under ⌘+Tab,
• in KDE 4.3 notifications displayed using Plasma visual notifications engine,
• on X11-compatible platforms only one instance of the application can be created,
• Norwegian translation (by Egil Hanger, the guy that also suggested some changes – thanks!).

• all connections to Twitter and Identi.ca use SSL encryption,
• Norwegian translation is complete (I failed on updating the file for 0.9.1),
• when you remove all Identi.ca accounts, the Identi.ca URL doesn’t disappear making Identi.ca unusable.

And one important thing: the support for basic authentication for Twitter was discontinued in qTwitter 0.9.1. Now it relies on OAuth (and QOAuth) and I hope I’m not making a mistake. OAuth is here from July, it seems to be working fine now, there were no complaints about it and I’m quite happy with it. Let’s hope things don’t get broken now :)

Download qTwitter 0.9.2 qt-apps.org if you didn’t do it yet, or get the source from github. Enjoy!