What's new in Corebird 1.5
May 3, 2017
- Media attached to tweets can be downloaded using Right Click and selecting "save as"
- Profiles use the profile background color set in the Twitter settings if no banner is set
- The tweet compose window now features a "favorite image" view that allows users to save often sent images and quickly add them to tweets
- The media dialog now shows Previous/Next buttons to quickly switch between multiple media attachments of a tweet>
- The Vine support has been removed since the project is discontinued
- Allow text selection in Direct Messages
- New --account parameter allows opening the window for the given account only
- Support tweets with up to 50 replied-to users.
- Add back verified icons next to user avatars
- Redesigned account creation UI
- Tons of bug fixes
New in Corebird 1.3.3 (Oct 4, 2016)
- Support longer tweets in a few more places
- Properly escape ampersand characters in user mentions to fix GtkLabel warnings about wrong escape characters in tooltips
- Fix tweet length calculations for whitespace-only tweets
- Check for duplicated entries in media arrays. This is apparently a problem on Twitter's side but led to crashes in Corebird
- Use the correct nsfw status of a tweet, i.e. the one that can actually show images.
- Fix a crash when sending a tweet with multiple images attached
- Fix tweet length calculation of quote tweets. This previously led to tweets getting rejected by the server even though Corebird claimed they were fine.
New in Corebird 1.3 (Jul 31, 2016)
- The build system will now check for gtksink
- Remove libgee dependency
- The compose tweet window will now a save the current text on cancel
- Allow self-retweeting
- Fade loaded inline media in
- Twitter wont send mp4 urls for their videos anymore starting August 1st, so support HLS videos
- Query full-length DMs
- Support muting in profiles
New in Corebird 0.9 Beta (Nov 17, 2014)
- Mentions, hashtags and links now get highlighted directly in the compose window
- The avatar of the currently active account in a window is now clickable, showing all configured accounts. From here, each account can be opened, configured or the active account of the window can be switched. This also means that the account setup page in the settings dialog is gone.
- The logic for autostarting accounts is more explicit now. Previously when starting Corebird, we opened all accounts that were opened when you last quitted the *application* (read: you used the application menu to quit it *or* you just closed the last window). Meaning, it was not possible to close all windows separately and still get more than one window at the next start. The new behavior features a "autostart" switch in each account's settings you can toggle. We fall back to the old behavior in situations that have no better semantics, like when no autostart is not set to true for any account.
- The setting regarding the dark theme is gone (existing configurations will keep working). This was just wrong and caused a lot of confusion.
- When viewing an image of a tweet with multiple images/videos attached, you can now use the cursor keys to navigate between them.
- Avatars in tweets and profiles now show if the user is verified.
- Lots of the application should now react better to missing network connections.
- The activity indicator for loading older tweets (which is what was in the bottom of the sidebar)is now in the tweet list itself.
- Some things now get immediately applied instead of needing a restart of the client. For example, when adding/removing filters (or changing them of course), the corresponding tweets get immediately hidden/shown. Same things applies to unfollowing someone or disabling someone's retweets.
- Each window now has a back button, additionally to all the keyboard shortcuts available for going back and forward. This has been a long-standing concern and is hopefully fixed now.
- Last but not least, large parts of the UI have been refined, spacing, icons, etc. have been changed. Thanks to Allan Day for his great work on this.