Preview Release 0.0.1

[chylex]

https://tweetduck.chylex.com/download/linux/TweetDuck.0.0.1.tar.gz

Extract the contents somewhere, then launch the TweetDuck executable that's in the extracted folder.

Caveats

• Supports only x64
• No options, plugins, or guide dialog
  • A very limited set of things can be configured by manually editing TD_*Config.cfg files in the storage folder
• Portable mode is default, so everything is stored in <installation folder>/portable
  • Can be changed using command line arguments, for ex. ./TweetDuck -datafolder "$HOME/.config/TweetDuck"
• No notifications (yet)
• No update checking
• No video playback
• No quick way to make screenshots
• Dev tools can be opened but cannot be resized
• Random bits of functionality are missing, for ex.:
  • The "TweetDuck" button in Settings does nothing
  • Loading content from URLs in the Templates plugin does not work
  • Idle detection used by some plugins never triggers
  • Who knows what else

However, a decent chunk of TweetDuck features work already, for ex.:

• Downloading images/videos from tweets
• Customizable design
• Emoji keyboard
• Privacy features (blocking TD analytics and CSP reports, bypassing t.co redirect)
• Various UI improvements and fixes
• Things like blocking NFT users and several optional QOL features, provided they are enabled by editing the config files

Widevine

One more caveat, this version of the Chromium library is set to automatically download Widevine CDM, which is used for playback of DRM-protected videos.

AFAIK nothing on Twitter uses it and I don't have a good way of preventing the download itself, but if you go into the portable folder and navigate all the way to WidevineCdm, you can make it read-only (chmod 400 WidevineCdm) and then Chromium will fail to move the downloaded Widevine nonsense in there. At worst, it'll waste some bandwidth and pollute your temporary folder for a while, but it should not get executed.

If you use -datafolder, for ex. -datafolder "$HOME/.config/TweetDuck", then the folder will be in $HOME/.config/TweetDuck/TD_Chromium/WidevineCdm instead.