Khweeteur development update
Benoît HERVIER has posted about how his Twitter client, Khweeteur, is progressing: The next release of Khweeteur use a daemon for retrieving and sending post. This daemon can run all time to provide notifications on new tweets, dm, or mentions while the ui isn't running. Of course this is optionnal. The communication between the daemon use dbus and so didn't require to create thread on the ui, which use less memory and cpu. This result on a faster ui, while the daemon do the hard work in background. Combined with some screenshots, this architecture is appealing if it's well implemented (and Benoît's stuff usually is) for having Twitter services constantly running, without continually draining your battery.
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