You know, I am a huge fan of qwitter, and it has done a truly amazing thing for windows twitter users. I'm still devoted to it, and still volunteer to maintain the Readme even though I'm almost exclusively a mac person now.
Having said that, I'm not sure I see why it is necessary to have a mac port of qwitter. There are several high quality mainstream twitter clients on the mac that work just great with voiceover. YoruFukurou has many of the features that I thought I would have to live without when I switched. One big advantage of qwitter would be much harder to do in OS X, unless lion fixes a particularly annoying issue. You have seen this if you use the speech output of growl, or even adium's built-in speech notifications. Whenever some other program has something it wants to speak, whatever voiceover is saying gets interrupted. On windows, if qwitter wants to announce that a new tweet has come in, it waits for a pause in the existing output, such as a gap between sentences. The current mechanisms for speaking text on OS X do not seem to provide any facilities for doing this. This annoying behavior is why I don't keep adium or skype signed in, because I'd lose my place just to be told that someone came online. This would be a dealbreaker for qwitter. On Jul 9, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: I agree. Would love a version of qwitter for the mac. Sadly, I know absolutely nothing about programming, so am unable to help with the project, but if registering an interest helps at all, definitely count me in! Missy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Porting qwitter to mac? Hi all, For those of you who don't know, qwitter is a free twitter client, written in python. It's an accessible twitter client, but is only written for windows. http://www.qwitter-client.net Now to my question. For those of you who are experienced programmers, would anybody be willing to work in porting this twitter client to mac? It's open source, and it would be awesome to see it on the mac platform. I'm not a great programmer myself (i know very little python, as I tend to keep to web-related programming languages such as php). However, if any people are interested in working with me to port qwitter to mac, I'll contribute all I can to the project. I don't know, maybe the qwitter devs are on this list...! If anybody's interested, it would be awesome to work to get this awesome app on to the mac! Ash -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
