Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04

Firstly, a short introduction of "Lenses" via the Ubuntu wiki: "Lenses used to be known as Places. When referring to code and APIs we still use the term Places, but the user-visible name is Lenses. The Places name will be retired in 11.10".

I've recently came upon a very interesting Unity Lens for Gwibber developed by Ken VanDine and couldn't wait to try it but it didn't really work until the latest Unity update released a few hours ago. You can use the Unity Gwibber Lens to quickly access your Gwibber posts, replies, private messages and so on. And it also comes with a search.

To use it you can click the Gwibber icon on the Unity dock (it also has a keyboard shortcut so you can use Super + G) or directly from Dash but in that case only people will show up and not tweets / posts (I think this is a bug though).

In case that sounds a bit confusing, check out the video below to see exactly how the Unity Gwibber Lens works:

Download Unity Gwibber Lens

Unity Gwibber Lens is still experimental and not everything works. You'll also find some bugs like you can see in the above video (slowness, etc.).

But if you want to use it, you can use the following .deb I've created using the official packaging and the latest BZR code.

Update: you can now install Unity Gwibber Lens from the Gwibber PPA. Add the PPA and install it using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-gwibber

Then log out and log back in (makes sure you've already added some accounts in Gwibber before logging out).

You can also get the latest BZR code from HERE.

Twitter's OAuthpocalypse Today - Upgrade Your Gwibber!

Today is Twitter's OAuthpocalypse: Twitter is shutting down basic authentification so all clients not using OAuth will stop working and one of these Twitter clients is Ubuntu's default microblogging client: Gwibber. That means that you need to upgrade if you want to continue using Gwibber.

An official Gwibber PPA for both Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been created - for testing purposes! - with an updated Gwibber version which uses OAuth.

To add the Gwibber (with OAuth) PPA and install it, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Then restart gwibber-service:

gwibber-service restart

And you should then be prompted to authorize Twitter. If that doesn't happen, simply open Gwibber (Applications > Internet > Gwibber Social Client), click on Edit > Accounts and authorize your Twitter account:

Note: Twitter will definitely stop working if you don't upgrade. This PPA is not a daily builds PPA! Yes, it's a testing PPA (they didn't mention this but probably these packages are going into the Ubuntu official repositories if the tests are successful) though. I can tell you that I've upgraded to the package in the PPA in Ubuntu 10.10 and everything is working fine. Tomorrow I'll also test it in Ubuntu 10.04.

[via Ubuntu Desktop mailing list]

Gwibber Now More Social Then Ever [Ubuntu]

I suggest you don't install the latest version of Gwibber from it's daily PPA because it's very unstable. In this post I just wanted to show you the above screenshot, which is from jorge’s stompbox (I couldn't get all 3: Idendi.ca, Twitter and Facebook statuses in the same screenshot because of too many Twitter updates).

If you really really want to install it, here is Gwibber daily PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa