Corebird

This is the readme for the current development version. If you're looking for one of the stable releases, check the "releases" link at the top of this page.

Shortcuts

Key	Description
Ctrl + t	Compose Tweet
Back	Go one page back (this can be triggered via the back button on the keyboard, the back thumb button on the mouse or Alt + Left)
Forward	Go one page forward (this can be triggered via the forward button on the keyboard, the forward thumb button on the mouse or Alt + Right)
Alt + num	Go to page num (between 1 and 7 at the moment)
Ctrl + Shift + s	Show/Hide sidebar
Ctrl + p	Show account settings
Ctrl + k	Show account list
Ctrl + Shift + p	Show application settings

When a tweet is focused (via keynav):

• r - reply
• tt - retweet
• f - favorite
• dd - delete
• Return - Show tweet details

Will this work on distribution XYZ?

I don't know. If you can satisfy all the dependencies, probably yes but you'd most likely still have to compile and install it from source (that is, if no one else makes packages).

Translations

Since February 2014, there's a Corebird project on Transifex

Contributing

All contributions are welcome (artword, design, code, just ideas, etc.) but if you're planning to actively change something bigger, talk to me first.

Dependencies

• gtk+-3.0 >= 3.16
• glib-2.0 >= 2.44
• rest-0.7 (>= 0.7.91 for image uploads)
• json-glib-1.0
• sqlite3
• libsoup-2.4
• intltool >= 0.40
• libgee-0.8
• vala >= 0.28 (makedep)
• automake >= 1.14 (makedep)
• gstreamer-1.0 (disable via --disable-video, default enabled)
• gst-plugins-bad-1.0 >= 1.6 (disable via --disable-video, default enabled)
• gst-plugins-good-1.0 (disable via --disable-video, default enabled)
• gst-libav-1.0 (disable via --disable-video, default enabled)

Note that the above packages are just rough estimations, the actual package names on your distribution may vary.

If you pass --disable-video to the configure script, you don't need any gstreamer dependency but won't be able to view any videos (i.e. no vines and no twitter gifs).

Compiling

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Corebird installs its application icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/, so an appropriate call to gtk-update-icon-cache might be needed.