# HG changeset patch # User Yoshiki Yazawa # Date 1210671019 -32400 # Node ID 6774859df10b1d0212433922891bc3e1224034fa # Parent e4f8e5708afd18409c12e0832598c04ab5eea5dc revised README diff -r e4f8e5708afd -r 6774859df10b README --- a/README Tue May 13 15:02:54 2008 +0900 +++ b/README Tue May 13 18:30:19 2008 +0900 @@ -9,12 +9,20 @@ incoming message contains any recipient name or sender name which is listed in the each dedicated lists. -*update* From version 0.5.0, pidgin-twitter automatically escapes annoying "pseudo command" in sending message. A pseudo command is a message like "¤Ë¤Û¤ó¤´w" or "....w" and it will be wrongly interpreted as an incomplete command message so that twitter gives us an error massage. +*update* +In version 0.6.0, various new features have been added. Letter counter +for composing message is useful for keeping track of the length limit +of twitter message and oops suppression will give users who mainly use +multi byte characters comfortable twittering. And also, from version +0.6.0, pidgin-twitter strips any markup elements from sending message, +so the posts from pidgin-twitter are always kept sane. + + 2. Dependency This plugin requires pidgin 2.4.0 or newer and glib-2.14.0 or newer. @@ -59,8 +67,29 @@ this feature, please uncheck it in the plugin configuration window. I recommend you to leave it always enabled. +Letter counter will appear on the format bar in a pidgin conversation +window. This counter keeps track of length of composing string in +character since the hard limit of message length is applied by +character count basis. If the composing message exceeds 140 +characters, the displayed number will turn red to notify the excess. +This feature is enabled by default. You can disable this via configure +window. -5. Histroy +Suppress oops message feature may require explanation. If we send a +message which is longer than 140 bytes, twitter will send us back an +oops message to notify the excess of the limit. However, the actual +limit is computed on internal representation of characters so that the +messages which does not exceed 140 letters will actually be +accepted. Suppress oops message feature will silently discards *false* +oops message in this situation. This feature can also be configured +via configure window. + +Strip markup feature is for keeping posts sane by striping excess +markup in sending message. This feature is always enabled and cannot +be configured. + + +5. History 0.4.0 (May 01 2008) First public release. @@ -73,8 +102,12 @@ resulted in crash. 0.6.0 (In near future in 2008) -Added letter counter. -"False positive oops message" suppression has been added. (in progress) +- Added letter counter. +- Suppress "False positive oops message" when sending message which +exceeds 140 bytes but actual length is within 140 characters. +- pidgin-twitter now strips all markup elements on sending a +message. This feature prevents this plugin from posting unexpected +excessively markuped message. 6. Acknowledgments @@ -85,6 +118,10 @@ The original letter counter has been developed by Dossy Shiobara in convcharcount plugin. +In development for 0.6.0, mikanbako (@mikanbako) joined our team and +contributed numerous efforts. The original strip markup feature has +been developed by him. -Yoshiki Yazawa (@yazuuchi) + +Yoshiki Yazawa (@yazuuchi) and the pidgin-twitter team yaz@honeyplanet.jp