hanford / chirp

🐦 A cross platform twitter application

Chirp 🐦

Desktop twitter app

Use the mobile twitter app from the convenience of a desktop application, works on Mac, Linux and windows.

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Copyright © 2017-present Jack Hanford, [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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chirp's Issues

Design idea: White application bar.

Is it possible to refresh feed in the background?

I have Chirp (previously the Twitter Mac client) open on the desktop but it is rarely in focus unless I see something scroll past that looks interesting. With Chirp the feed doesn't update unless the window is focused (and maybe some other rules apply too). What's the technical reason as to why it can't update the feed while not in focus? If it's fixable I'd be happy to try and work on it.

I cannot copy and paste user and password

I use a password manager in order to handle my credentials, and I believe most of the people now a days are doing the same. So it's pretty important to have the ability to, at least, paste user and passwords into the login fields.

Currently your app doesn't allow me to do so, I'm using a Mac.

Push notification support

Would be great to have support for push notifications! Only thing keeping me from switching from my Epichrome implementation.

Doesn't load new tweets when scrolling

On MacOS 10.12.5

Image alt-text

It seems that Chirp is the only client that doesn't allow me to put alt text on an image.

Darkmode

Add a way to use dark or ultra-dark vibrancy. We'll need to adjust styles on twitter as well, but because we already have a way to inject CSS it shouldn't be too bad

Hide keyboard shortcut doesn't work

MacOS 10.12.5

When pressing cmd + H to hide, the app doesn't do anything. Right clicking on the icon and selecting hide works, however.

Download link alerts of malicious site

Please provide an AppImage for Linux

Currently there is a zip file for Linux. While this works, it is a bit cumbersome, as it needs to be unpacked and manually integrated into the menus.

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
• Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

electron-builder has native support for AppImage as a target.__ In fact, it is the default for Linux.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

Keep TL at the top?

Any thoughts on an option to have the TL scrollTop when new tweets come up so the most recent tweets are automatically shown?

Minimize to Tray

It would be awesome to have chirp running in the background ( with #8 even better ) with a nice tray icon (:

Brainstorm

@MehediH What other things would you like to see added?

Design bug: The avatar doesn't have a top margin

I imagine the spacing is correct but this issue is caused by the vibrant background which created a different background colour from the header. If it was white, the spacing wouldn't' field weird.

CMD + Enter to send a message

It would be nice to be able to use the keyboard to send DMs. :)

Release strategies

@MehediH - I saw you added some code checking for updates, awesome!

How do I integrate it into my workflow? Currently I'm manually building, signing, then uploading the file to a service (now.sh) and updating hardcoded links on my website.

How does distribution via github work? Ideally I could just create a tag or something .. but I'm not sure how this is typically done

Title Bar in Mac OS Dark Mode

It would be cool to implement the design idea from issue #10 and give it support for Mac OS Dark Mode, something similar to what Telegram does: