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Monty Taylor: Bug Buddy gwibber FAIL - and a pidgin WIN

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gwibber, which is what Ubuntu tries to launch when I click "broadcast" in the little drop down menu (Ubuntu's current word meaning micro-blogging application) has been broken for me for weeks. It used to just not do anything... but since I upgraded to Maverick this week, I thought I'd check to see if it had started working again.

Nope.

But now at least I get a Bug Buddy crash window up - so at least I _know_ it didn't do anything.

Here's the next problem:

 

The application gwibber has crashed.
Information about the crash has been successfully collected.
This application is not known to Bug Buddy, therefore the bug report cannot be sent to the GNOME Bugzilla.  Please save the bug to a text file and report it to the appropriate bug tracker for this application.

That's sort of FAIL. Twitter is sort of a popular thing, and gwibber seems to be the chosen app in Ubuntu for this task. How Bug Buddy could not know about gwibber is beyond me. BUT - there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Some angry googling brought up exactly what I've been looking for my entire life:

pidgin-microblog

As usual, pidgin continues to be one of the best open source apps out there, in that it not only gets stuff done, but it gives me more features than my closed-source friends have in their lives. Additionally, it means I might actually be able to start participating sensibly in twitter world, since I've always been turned off by the fact that it's essentially just web-based async IRC except not as good. But now I can make it look like what it is in a user interface that works. YAY!

Yet one more reason for me to continue using Pidgin over Empathy (OTR being the first reason, in case you weren't following along at home)

So short story- bugs in gwibber == FAIL, but Open Source once again saves the day by having, oh, I don't know - CHOICE!

 


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