Turpial: the Venezuelan Twitter client

There are variety of Twitter clients on Linuxas Gwibber o hotot, but "Creole like arepa”Comes to us Turpial, a Twitter client programmed in the language "Python”, Made here in Venezuela. It is enough functional and lightweight. If you are interested, keep reading 😉

This is an article I wrote on my Tumblr a while ago. But, it seems to me that it does not hurt to have it around here a little more updated.

For starters, Turpial can be used in the “extended"(with multiple columns both) or in the form "normal"(a both). The tweets show us:

• Username
• Tweet content
• Date and Time of publication
• Way by which it was published (eg via Twitter for Android)

In the Right upper corner there is a button with an arrow, with which you reload tweets. In the upper zone, yeah No. have enabled the "extended mode"(Preferences> extended) they will see three buttons: Timeline, Mentions y DMs respectively. Then, in the lower zone, there are 7 buttons, I describe them below:

1. Timeline, Mentions and Direct Messages.
2. Profile, Favorites and Searches.
3. Follow: enter a username to follow.
4. Update status.
5. Upload image.
6. Preferences: enable extended mode, tweet update time, etc.
7. About Turpial: credits, version ...

To Retweet, reply, open links, etc. we must give right click about some tweet, and the options will appear. Turpial shows us that "small does not have to be bad"(this applies both with the application and with the real bird xD) and surely more than one will want to try it.

Turpial in normal mode

Turpial in extended mode

Turpial is already in the version 1.6.9 stable, and it is developing the version 2.0 (is in state Alpha). According to the publication on its official page, the following are expected improvements:

• Improved URL detection
• Viewing profiles and images directly from the application
• Advanced options in the preferences menu
• Improved appearance and performance (using webkit)
• Broadcasting of messages
• Dialogue for sending DMs
• Support for the undo function (Ctrl + Z)
• Show images in real size when clicking on a Tweet or profile
• Redesigned dialog for username autocompletion
• Possibility of using as many columns as the user wants
• Integration with Ubuntu (in 1.6 the integration is not so good that let's say ...)
• Support for using a public TL in a column
• Support for undoing ReTweets
• Implementation of the functions to report tweets and users
• Redesign of the function to mute users

However, currently has some bugs:

• Notification preferences don't work yet
• Proxy support has not been implemented
• After creating a new account it is not immediately displayed in the menu (you must restart)
• The function to resize columns has not been implemented
• Main window sometimes hangs when resizing
• Greater consumption of resources (almost 50MB more than version 1.6.9)
• Every time you start the application you must wait for your friends to load (followers and people you follow)
• The account authorization dialog needs a total redesign
• To follow a user you must enter their profile and click the "Follow" button (you can't follow it from a Tweet or anything similar)

Turpial 2.0 Alpha screenshot, made by the Turpial team

Undoubtedly the next version will give Turpial a 360 degree turn, perhaps even so it cannot be compared with other clients such as Hotot, Polly, etc. But he will definitely be my client of choice for a long time. What do you think? Is the little one good? What Twitter clients do you use? I am all ears 😉