Hello
Blindtweet will have global keystrokes and it will run in background. I hope to
finish the first release version by the end of the summer
Regards
Jonathan Chacón
El 10/07/2011, a las 14:38, Ashley Cox escribió:
> Yes, agreed. Perhaps, if someone were to create the twitter application I
> describe below (how about calling it tweeter?), there could be a keystroke
> that was global, that when pressed would pop up a dialog in which you could
> compose a tweet.
> I do find sometimes that the ability to read tweets from anywhere is, while
> great, distracting
> Perhaps another keystroke could be added that popped up a dialog with the
> timeline
>
>
>
>
> On 10/07/2011 13:18, Missy Hoppe wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
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