Choqok 1.6 micro-blogging client available

Is already found available for download version 1.6 in beta phase of choqok, the Twitter Client and Status.Net (now renamed GNU social) most used by users of  KDE, this practical and friendly micro-bloggin client brings great improvements, which have been made possible thanks to the work of more than two months of the development team.

choqok 1.6 and its previous versions are developed in QT, which makes it ideal for desktop environments such as KDELXQtTDE, in addition the tests have verified that it behaves quite well in KDE Framework 5 what supports the desktop  KDE Plasma 5.

choqok 1.6 supports social networks Twitter, PumpOpenDesktop.org and from this version friendica.

This beta of choqok 1.6 brings several improvements among which stand out, the possibility of being able to eliminate accounts that contain spaces in their names, an increase in security since it will use HTTPS connections whenever they are available and also withdraws support for image hosting services such as tweetphotoTwitpic that are no longer being used.

In relation to Twitter, the beta of choqok 1.6 adds many improvements and new functionalities, such as the ability to send and view tweets containing quoted text, display of the time a retweet was made, and search optimization for hashtag and users.

Similarly choqok 1.6 allows the sending of direct messages (DM) without character limits, the list of users loads faster, allows you to send DM to any of your followers, in addition to allowing you to delete DM. In the same way, a series of bugs from previous versions are corrected.

The developers of the beta choqok 1.6 They ask the community to report any error or eventuality, in addition to testing it at their own risk since it is not a stable version. If you want to know more details of this version you can read it in the launch token.


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