Binary package hint: gwibber
This may sound a little ambiguous, but I find Gwibber (especially 2.0.0) too heavy. If I remember correctly, even if the older version had less features, I had a more pleasurable experience with it because it's not as slow.
This may require a lot of tweaking and not everyone may agree, but as a microblogger, I want my Twitter/Identi.ca client to be light and fast. My objective is to send and receive short messages. Taking a little too much time to do those little tasks slows me down. Too bad I don't have good alternatives because Adobe Air isn't smooth here and I don't want to run and install KDE components just for Choqok.
Gwibber is a great app. I don't exactly know how this problem can be resolved but it needs some trimming/optimizing.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 4 09:24:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gwibber 2.0.0~bzr476-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
While this is not a terribly accurate test:
david@sagan:~$ time gwibber -v -d
DEBUG:root:Launched from /usr/bin
DEBUG:root:Running Gwibber from the system path
Updating...
Updating...
real 0m8.803s
user 0m5.910s
sys 0m0.840s
This is measured from start up till gwibber is rendered on the screen with posts. Nearly 9 seconds isn't good enough, I am sure we can do better.