Turpial

Summary: Turpial is a light, fast and beautiful microblogging client written in Python

Turpial is an alternative client for microblogging with multiple interfaces. At the moment it supports Twitter and Identi.ca and works with Gtk and Qt interfaces, but we are still working on more fancy features.

Currently Turpial is in heavy development, so probably you will find bugs or undesired behavior. In this cases please report issues at:

http://dev.turpial.org.ve/projects/turpial/issues

We will be very graceful for your contributions.

License

Turpial source code, images and sounds have been released under the GPL v3 License. Please check the COPYING file for more details or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Requirements

Turpial needs this packages to work properly:

python >= 2.5, < 3.x

libturpial >= 0.8.x

notify >= 0.1.1 (python-notify)

gst0.10 (gstreamer0.10-python)

pybabel >= 0.9.1 (python-babel)

webkit (pywebkitgtk)

setuptools (python2-distribute)

pkg-resources

Currently Turpial suports 3 different interfaces: Shell, Gtk and Qt. The shell interface needs no more dependencies to work, but if you are planning to run Gtk or Qt you will need to install a couple of more dependencies:

For Gtk:

gtk2 >= 2.12 (python-gtk2)

gtkspell >= 2.25.3 (python2-gtkspell)

For Qt:

pyqt4 >= 2.12 (python-pyqt4)

Installation

Turpial is available on most popular Linux distributions, so you should be able to install it using your favorite package manager (aptitude, apt-get, pacman, yum). Please visit http://turpial.org.ve/downloads for more information.

To install Turpial from sources you should go to source folder and run (as superuser):

# python setup.py install

or using sudo:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Usage

After installation just execute turpial in a shell:

$ turpial [OPTIONS]

Turpial will try to identify your desktop environment and load the interface that best suit to it. If you use a Gtk based environment then Turpial will load Gtk interface but in a non-Gtk based environment it will load the Qt interface. However you can override this behavior using optional parameters: