El equipo de Ubuntu-ve asked how we could help the development of Turpial, a lightweight twitter client developed in Venezuela and popular these days. Well, I decided to help by packaging it for Ubuntu, YES MY FIRST PACKAGE FROM SCRATCH, now many Ubuntu users can have Turpial in a way that can be easily updated through and apt repository.
Turpial is a mircrobloging client for twitter soon for identi.ca that intends to be lightweight and fit all kinds of desktops. It is developed by Wil Alvarez, Eleazar Meza, Azrael Arocha, José Leonel Subero, Edwind Contreras, William Cabrera, Milton Mazzarri y Héctor Colina. The ppa made available is not an official repository, But I am definitelly thinking of taking Turpial to Ubuntu. Xubuntu could use a lightweight microbloging app.
Installing Turpial from the PPA:
Adding the archive:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial
Update
sudo apt-get update
and ready to install Turpial
sudo apt-get install turpial
you can check out the “Unofficial” PPA for Turpial en https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx/+archive/turpial where you will find the source defitintion files and such.
Enjoy Turpial.
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Looking forward to get a Karmic PPA for this. Thanks also for teaching me about the “add-apt-repository” command! Cheers.
the package is now in karmic, enjoy Turpial
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Hi! Are you developer? Can I help you in translating this app to Russian? Please, write me by e-mail.
I am thinking abut contributing with the code, I ma beinging to comment some of the code to see. I am very in touch with the developers. The final 1.0 release shoud happen this weekend and the next big version witll suport translations. So expect russian to land in soon.
Okay. Thank you for quick answer!
i translate turpial in italian….i can send it!
Help me: where can I get turpial language file?
Hey thanks for your interest in Turpial, check http://github.com/satanas/Turpial/tree/development The 1.0 final release should have the .po file in English. Should come out by monday.
Ok, I’ve found a lot of .py files with lables (at /usr/share/…)
But it is not good way to translate apps ’cause after release of new version (may be with new functions) you need to retranslate .py files (.py files if an ‘engine’ of app. It can be unsafe to change codes)
To developers: please, do a translation file with all strings of apps – it is easy to translate this file.
I believe you can check here http://github.com/satanas/Turpial/tree/development
The .po files might already be there
Turpial is in very active development so they should have it translated to many languanges in no time.
Please check http://github.com/satanas/Turpial/tree/development The 1.0 final release should have the .po file in English. Should come out by monday.
How about putting it in Debian?
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/Debian
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/ForUbuntuDevelopers
I have already sent the source package files to the debian maintainer, I am waiting for his. we are woroking on some details like man page and watch files to make it fit for debian.
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i just installed its really nice and very useful…
one question!
i see some other language completely!
Can i change the application language to English ?
http://ubuntudiscovery.blogspot.com/2010/04/eccola-mia-traduzione-di-turpial.html
turpial in italian
turpial in italiano
bye
Free_alucarD
thank you very much for this contribution. hopefully, this shall be included in the final 1.0 release.
Free_alucarD
ps. sorry for my basic english…sometimes i use google translate, like today =D
i forgot… the auto-login would be useful! it’s boring to click whenever!
It will be very good if app have Refresh button, auto-login and changing icon on new tweet (such as in Pino twitter client).
Also, I can’t find sent direct messages.
Waiting for 1.0 release
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Hi!
Is there some parameter to start the application with english language instead of italian or whatever it is default?
Cheers!
hey there, The turpial 1.0 release does not have language support the upcoming 1.6 release will. I am preparing a daily ppa for it since the developers are actively working on it.
Thanks fro using turpial
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¿tienen pensado hacer un turpial para blackberry?
My Turpial 1.3.4 comes installed in English by default. I’d like to change this to Spanish, but I don’t see any language option in the Preferences. Any comment/help appreciated.
That’s An interesting feature. Shall bring it up to upstream
On the Turpial website I see a Chinese example, suggesting the possibility to change languages as you wish. In the Turpial directory usr/share/locale/ on my computer I notice all the available language files *.mo. What makes English come up as default on installation? The default of the Linux distro? My distro is Ubuntu 10.10 Dutch. But I’d like to have Turpial in Spanish, because Turpial is announced as “tan criollo como la arepa”.
I find it surprising that my issue is not a FAQ.
Hey,
could you please create some packages for ubuntu 11.04 (natty)
i really like your tool
there is a version in the devel ppa of turpial.
Stable turpial does not support natty and python 2.7 at all. check
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial-devel