Very well said. The only thing I'd like to add is that the thing I like best about qwitter is that it runs in the background; you can just use it where-ever you are on the computer without having to alt-tab to it first. So, if you're writing a document, or playing a game for example, you can just check tweets without losing your place in whatever program you were in. Apart from that particular convenience, Yorufukuru on the mac does meet my needs quite adequately. Anyway, what is described below sounds perfect to me, but if qwitter were to be ported to the mac somehow, I'd only use it over what is already available because of its ability to just run in the background. I hope that makes some kind of sense. Missy
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 5:46 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Porting qwitter to mac? I see what you're saying. The only reason I wanted to see a port of qwitter was simply because it provides features that most of the other twitter clients do not, or if they provide those features they are either more hidden away or in the wrong place. It would be great if someone would write a twitter client that had 4 columns lined up; timeline, direct messages, mentions, and sent. Then you could add more columns for specific people who you are interested in, so only there tweets showed up. Then a simple tweet box. The ability to follow people, unfollow people, and a button to go to their twitter profile. You could customise the time before new tweets are received. That's it; that, in my oppinion, would be the perfect twitter client. Many of the other clients (including qwitter itself) have a lot of unnecessary features. For example, not to diss qwitter in any way, but who needs to do a bing search from a twitter client? If I wanted audio tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list > this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose the Mac platform to get away from blind specific solutions and be more standard, thus being able to more easily communicate with sighted people on equal terms? I can understand the need for one or more blind specific solutions in the PC world, but here? Am i naive, stupid, living on another planet? > /Krister > > 9 jul 2011 kl. 19.41 skrev Jonathan Chacón Barbero: > >> Hello, >> >> there are some problems to develop a ported version of Qwitter: >> >> * keystroke management is very different in OSX than Windows... We have to >> rewrite all modules about keyboard >> * window dialog management is very different in OSX. >> * there are few diferences in IO file system for OSX and Windows >> >> >> well, I have a good news... I'm developing Blindtweet for OSX. It is a >> twitter client for OSX managed using keystrokes and it uses speech capabilityes to show the twiter information. >> I hope finish it for september and it will be in the Mac app store >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> Jonathan Chacón Barbero >> Accessibility, usability and new technologies consultant >> >> Phone: +34 679953948 >> e-Mail: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >> Blog: http://www.programaraciegas.es >> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonathanchacon >> LinkedIn: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jonathanchacon >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.chacon.barbero >> Messenger: tyf...@hotmail.com >> Skype: Tyflos_ >> FaceTime: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
