ayoy / qtwitter

qTwitter is an application interacting with Twitter and Identi.ca social networks. Aims to be as compact as possible 
still providing outstanding usability. Since it's a Qt-based application with no other dependencies, it works wherever 
Qt does, i.e. Windows, Mac OS X and vast variety of Linuxes and Unices supporting X11 (including Nokia's Maemo 
platform).

Features' summary as for v0.8.2:
  - OAuth-based authentication scheme for Twitter accounts,
  - support for Twitter and Identi.ca for:
    * friends and public timeline,
    * posting, replying, retweeting, deleting and (dis)favoring statuses,
    * downloading, sending and deleting direct messages,
  - support for working with multiple accounts at the same time,
  - storing statuses lists between sessions,
  - automatic checks for updates,
  - integrated support for one-click URL shortening via 8 different services,
  - full interaction with TwitPic API, allowing for easy one-click image uploading and posting updates,
  - system tray notifications (via knotify and Growl),
  - customizable statuses list length and look (via the use of themes),
  - in-session passwords storing (can be disabled),
  - HTTP proxy support,
  - being recognized as a source of updates,
  - translation to 8 languages in run-time (sorry for my poor Catalan, I appreciate any help here :) ).

See CHANGELOG for details.

If you wish to report an issue, request a feature, provide a translation (yay!) or just give any kind of feedback 
concerning qTwitter, the easiest way is to visit its bug tracking system site at:

http://ayoy.lighthouseapp.com/projects/27230-qtwitter/tickets?q=all

If you wish, you can also contact me either via e-mail (d AT ayoy DOT net) or at Twitter (http://twitter.com/ayoy).

Happy tweeting!

The qTwitter team




HOW TO INSTALL:

You can either compile qTwitter with support for OAuth authorization you will need

To compile qTwitter you'll need Qt libraries version 4.4.3 or newer. You will need QCA and QOAuth library to enable 
support for OAuth authorization. You'll find all needed info at http://wiki.github.com/ayoy/qoauth.

NOTE: To compile qTwitter without OAuth support, you'll need just Qt libraries. Comment out the line in qtwitter.pri 
file that states:

DEFINES += OAUTH

and you're done.

Follow the steps to compile qTwitter:

1. Get the qTwitter source code from qt-apps.org or GitHub (http://github.com/ayoy/qtwitter).
2. Enter the source code main directory.
3. Type:

  # qmake
  # make (or make release, depending on your Qt configuration)

4. It's done! Open qTwitter via "qtwitter" (UNIX), "qtwitter.app" (MacOS X) or "release\qtwitter.exe" (Windows). On 
UNIX-like machines you can also:
  # make install
  
  to have the app added to /usr/bin. If you want to install application in other dir, use PREFIX parameter with qmake:

  # qmake PREFIX="my/preferred/dir"
  # make
  # make install

5. Have fun :-)