GNOME Do Twitter Plugin

overview

A simple little plugin for GNOME Do that lets you post to twitter.

As of version 0.5, this plugin is now packaged with do-plugins (sorry about the delay, David). If you wish to obtain the source please check it out from launchpad. Per user requests I will continue to provide precompiled libraries here.

As The ChuX NorriX Blog noted this acts as a sort of meta-plugin for Do, giving you access to any web service that can read from a twitter feed (e.g. Remember the Milk).

Check out also my del.icio.us plugin for Do.

As always, feedback much appreciated. Enjoy!

license

GPL blah blah blah.

dependencies

If you are using the precompiled dll, make sure that you have libgconf2.0-cil and libndesk-dbus1.0-cil installed.

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changelog

0.1: Created
0.2: * moved authentication to GConf
0.3: ! Updated to work with changes in the Do interface
0.4: ! Fixed to work behind proxies (thank you Polaris)
0.5: * Added feedback through notification-daemon; * New icon

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Published:: 01.28.08 / 12am

Category:: projects, software

Makario 01.30.08 / 2pm

Good job on the plugin; I’m using it and it works great.

Polaris 03.11.08 / 2am

gnome-do freezes when I try and send a twitter update, the only way I can stop it is by switching to a VT and killing it from the command line. Gconf settings are ok — at least they seem to be — and the network proxy is configured. Can the proxy be the problem ? I glanced at the source code, and from what I see, the web request does not handle it.

(shuffles a bit through Mono documentation)

I don’t do C#, but from what I see, adding a couple of lines for the proxy would do the trick:

<pre try {
http_proxy = gconf.Get (”/system/http_proxy/host”) as String;
request.Proxy = new WebProxy(http_proxy, 3128);
} catch (GConf.NoSuchKeyException) {
…
}

jherran 03.17.08 / 11pm

Can’t compile it.

[jherran@gazelle ~/Desktop/downloads/Twitter]$ gmcs -target:library -r:System -r:Mono.Posix -r:/usr/lib/do/Do.Addins Twiter.cs -pkg:gconf-sharp-2.0
Twitter.cs(17,32): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `IAction’ could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings

Could you please tell me how can I solve it?

Regards

Jacob 03.18.08 / 6am

It looks like you’re using an older version of Do - this is based on the most recent bzr.

Either get the latest source for Do or download one of the older versions of the Twitter plugin (0.2 would probably be your best bet).

John E. 03.18.08 / 7am

0.4 doesn’t work with GNOME Do 0.4 here. It does report “Successfully loaded “Tweet” action.” at startup, but typing “twe..” does nothing.

David 03.18.08 / 6pm

This is a very popular Do plugin. Would you mind sprucing it up a bit (Mono coding guidelines, shinier icon(?), libnotify popup confirming successful tweet) so we can package it with the other official Do plugins? When you want to merge it, apply for membership in do-plugins.

Dave 03.20.08 / 8am

Would you mind adding some of these links and information on the official wiki? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Plugins/Twitter

Alex Launi 03.22.08 / 9am

Can you continue to stick the .dll up here?

Alex Launi 03.22.08 / 10am

Hey, what libraries does one need to compile this plugin? I wrote a small patch for the notifications but I can’t compile/test it.

Jacob 03.22.08 / 11am

System and Mono.Posix
ndesk-dbus
gconf-sharp
and the usual Do dependencies (Do and Do.Addins)

Obviously, you also need notification-daemon running for the notifications to show up.

John E. 03.22.08 / 2pm

Interestingly, 0.5 also refuses to work with Do 0.4.

Jacob 03.22.08 / 3pm

It’s possible that you’re missing some of the dependencies. Make sure you have libgconf2.0-cil and libndesk-dbus1.0-cil installed.

Alex Launi 04.02.08 / 5pm

Hey, I’ve written some patches to your Twitter plugin including contact autocompletion for replying. I’ve got them in my Do code branch. https://code.launchpad.net/~alexlauni/do/alauni-plugins. You should merge them, it’s a good addition. I would have emailed you but I couldn’t find any contact info on your site.

Jacob 04.02.08 / 10pm

That looks awesome - thank you so much for the patch.

Alex Launi 04.02.08 / 10pm

I suppose calling it a “patch” isn’t exactly accurate on either of our parts, but hey, what’s it between friends right? Glad you like.

Trackbacks 08.21.08 / 9am

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