Pwytter: Twitter for Windows, Mac, Linux

Thanks to Jean-Etienne, here are the detailed instructions:

I found Pwytter via an article from Linux.com  and found it very interesting to try. I’m trying to install source of version 0.8 on a Linux Fedora 11. Here is how to install it on Fedora 11 from the command line:

1. Download Pwytter, unzip it, enter directory pwytter-0.8
2. Install ImageTK: as root, type “yum install python-imaging-tk”
3. Install simplejson: as root, type “yum install python-simplejson”
4. (optional) launch: python setup.py build
5. launch: python setup.py install
6. Complete the installation by copying some files (4 lines below, type as root too):

cp pwCache.py /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.6.egg
cp pwCache.pyc /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.6.egg
cp -r media/ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.6.egg
cp -r theme/ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.6.egg

Now you can launch pwytter from any user!
Hope this helps.
Jean-Etienne

WinLibre has been selected this year again to be a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code.

One of Winlibre’s proposals is to improve Pwytter (more on WinLibre proposals for Google Summer of Code 2009…)

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all-important t-shirt at http://socghop.appspot.com/

This will be the icon for the next Pwytter release :

New features

• Greater performances
  • asynchronous version check, Friends/Followers loading for quick startup
  • asynchronous url loader (favorites, images, …)
  • filesystem cache for quick ressource loading at startup (images, users, favorites)
• Create/Remove Favorites
• New Timelines support : “Composite”, “Replies” and “Direct Messages”
• New popup menu to choose current timeline
• New Easy reply icon : add @name automatically
• New Windows setup for one click install
• User interface in 14 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian

Download

• Download Pwytter 0.8 now !

Pwytter is actually available in English and in French.

We are looking for translators for other languages.

Pwytter uses gettext, so it will be really easy for you to translate it.

Please contact me [ pierrejean.coudert at gmail dot com ], if you want to help.

Here are the instructions to translate Pwytter.

New features

• User interface Internationalization : English and French translations included
• Themable user interface, theme chooser, 3 themes included
• Mac binaries (thanks to py2app)
• Asian characters (UTF-8 support)

Improvements

• Splashcreen at startup
• Better edit line handling
• setup.py now uses SetupTools

Download

• Download Pwytter 0.7 now !

It’s already a good start !

Pwytter 0.7 is coming with internationalization , UTF-8 support (chineese, korean characters, …) and a themable user interface.

New Features

• Send direct message
• Display Followers
• Update autodetect : New pwytter release

Improvements

• Show parameter dialog on first launch
• Added a link to create a twitter account in parameter dialog
• The password is masked now in parameter dialog
• Display a busy cursor when loading timeline and sending message
• Add a Link to pwytter.com

Download

• Download Pwytter 0.6 now !

A bug was corrected in setup.py

The Win32 exe release is now working again.

Download Pwytter now !

New Features

• Friends support: show/hide button, load and display dynamically
• Send X-Twitter headers
• Image and user hints
• Now run on Linux

Improvements

• Reduced GUI width to 450px
• sdist support in setup.py

Bugs corrected

• Bug: in change parameters : there is now a live refresh
• Bug: No more exception when quitting the application

Download

• Pwytter 0.5 for Windows (executable)
• Pwytter 0.5 Source (for Linux or Mac)
• You can also dowload it directly from the subversion server:
  • svn checkout http://pwytter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pwytter