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Jesse David Hollington started following the problem "Favorites not marked in Tweetie for Mac are not starred" in atebits.

Jesse David Hollington replied on May 05, 2009 14:21 to the question "bring back the old highlight!" in atebits:

I may get used to it, but the problem I'm having with the new highlight style is that it make the selected Tweet appear *too* prominently -- it looks like it's a mention or DM as opposed to simply the selected tweet, and as a result is very visually distracting.

Although I don't mind the current light-blue style for mentions, I'd suggest that the style for mentions should be more emphasized than the style for the selected tweet.

Jesse David Hollington started following the question "bring back the old highlight!" in atebits.

A comment on the idea "Growl integration" in atebits:

I get a whole slew of old notificaitons whenever I restart Tweetie, but it otherwise seems to behave fine as long as I leave it running. – Jesse David Hollington, on May 05, 2009 13:56

A comment on the idea "Growl integration" in atebits:

While I'm happy to see Growl integration added, I'm hoping that the next version tweaks the notifications a bit to make them more informative. In particular, I think it's *very* important that the Growl notifications include the use name rather than simply "New Tweet"

Further, I'm seeing user avatars show up for notifications from some users, but not all. I'm guessing this may be a bug at this point, since it's inconsistent behaviour. – Jesse David Hollington, on May 05, 2009 13:55

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Hmmm, the new Growl integration in 1.1 is very... odd. Growl titles aren't usernames (instead they are all titled "New Mention", etc.), and so far I just get a generic Tweetie icon in stead of the user icon.

The SIMBL workaround someone posted here worked much better (usernames as Growl notice titles, actual user icons), although I like the per-account notification settings in the official implementation.

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A comment on the idea "Retweet Options and one-click option" in atebits:

Agreed, although I'd support having the one-click option as long as it was attached to a feature that would keep track of how often it was clicked and if it was overused simply redirect the user to a retwits anonymous page or somesuch :) – Jesse David Hollington, on April 24, 2009 16:27

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A comment on the idea "Growl integration" in atebits:

To be fair, if you don't have Growl running, any application that would use Growl notifications has nothing to hook into, and therefore doesn't really do anything with them anyway. There are a lot of apps out there that will try to send Growl notifications if it's installed, but do nothing if it's not -- no user-config panel is really necessary in this case. – Jesse David Hollington, on April 24, 2009 12:00

Jesse David Hollington replied on April 24, 2009 11:59 to the idea "Growl integration" in atebits:

I would agree that it would be great to see this added sooner rather than later.

I've been forced to keep Twitterific in place *just* to provide Growl notifications, which is becoming a nuisance, as having both Tweetie and Twitterific running is starting to cause me to exceed my rate limit.

The only thing that I really think is necessary is an ability for Growl to distinguish between new tweets, DMs and @replies/mentions, which is all Twitterific does right now. Obviously, a per-account configuration would be useful for those who have multiple Twitter accounts as well.

Jesse David Hollington replied on April 22, 2009 12:12 to the problem "Periods @ end of URL" in atebits:

This is a problem with URL shortening as well, which makes it even more serious.... If you enter/paste URLs and then shorten them, trailing characters such as periods, commas and parenthesis form part of the URL that is submitted to the shortening service, resulting in bad links from the service itself. Worse yet, there's no obvious way to see of fix the problem, since the shortened URLs *look* correct until you actually click on them and get redirected to the real URL.

I'm not entirely sure what the solution is, since as Greg describes you *could* have a URL that legitimately ends in one of these characters. Although I'm not sure I've ever seen periods, commas or closing parenthesis at the *end* of a URL, it's certainly both possible and permitted.

Jesse David Hollington started following the problem "Periods @ end of URL" in atebits.

A comment on the idea "Customize RT format" in atebits:

Well, the point I'm making above is that the RT option is *there* -- we're arguing semantics about how re-tweets are *formatted*

Ironically, I think there would have been less outrage if the feature had just been left out. Twitterific doesn't offer a retweet option *at all* and I don't see too many complaints about it.

I think the general feeling in here is that if you're going to support the feature, it should be supported in the manner that's the most commonly used -- particularly when the current political stance of using the "via" suffix is really a non-solution to the greater problem of RT-spam. – Jesse David Hollington, on April 20, 2009 19:40

A comment on the idea "Customize RT format" in atebits:

Unfortunately, when the developer seems to be taking a stance on whether a feature is added on the *basis* of Twitter etiquette, it's important to get to the root of the discussion.

There are many who feel that re-tweeting is a bad thing. Fine. I'm not sure I disagree to be honest. However, I still don't see how the choice of re-tweet syntax and formatting does anything to prevent the chronic retweeting problem that some users will exhibit. Users who habitually retweet a lot of junk are unlikely to care whether it starts with RT or ends with "via."

On the other hand, it seems that those of us who have to *see* that stuff would much rather see the "RT" prefix, as it makes it more obvious what you're looking at. You can visually (and even programmatically) filter these out if you don't want to deal with them. – Jesse David Hollington, on April 20, 2009 19:34

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Jesse David Hollington replied on April 20, 2009 19:31 to the idea "Customize RT format" in atebits:

We had this discussion in another comment thread, but I still don't see any practical difference between using the RT prefix or the "via" suffix... The way the re-tweet is *presented* is not going to change the behaviour of chronic re-tweeters, since most just hit the repost button and the post button one after the other and pay no more attention than that.

What forcing the "via" suffix *does* do is makes the resulting re-tweets far less readable and intuitive than they may otherwise be.

Supporting one format without supporting the other is pointless and is not actually helping the problem. I see many annoying and pointless re-tweets with a "via" suffix, with the difference being that it's far less obvious that these are re-tweets, and therefore makes reading the timeline even more confusing.

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