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IBBoard / cawbird

A fork of the Corebird GTK Twitter client that continues to work with Twitter
https://ibboard.co.uk/cawbird/
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Support Twitter Web keyboard shortcuts #387

Open 20NE opened 3 years ago

20NE commented 3 years ago

First of all, I love cawbird, great job. [features needed]

  1. Twitter Web's vim-like shortcuts, like j for down, k for up, etc. - see "Keyboard Shortcuts" in https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet
  2. for privacy and security, is there a way to hide twitter source label ?

My words seem rude, excuse me, my English is poor. Have a good day.

IBBoard commented 3 years ago

These are two separate features, so they should be in two separate feature requests. I'll split them out.

Vim-like shortcuts should be possible in theory. We already have single character shortcuts for some actions and keyboard navigation is already possible with arrow keys.

But why Vim shortcuts? Why not some other key bindings? And if we allow them to be customised so that it's not just Vim then that's just a whole load of maintenance effort and complexity that we have to take on.

20NE commented 3 years ago

But why Vim shortcuts? Why not some other key bindings? And if we allow them to be customised so that it's not just Vim then

That'll be great, and if key bindings are similar as twitter website, people will be earier leaving from website to cawbird. FYI, twitter website use vim-like key shortcuts.

IBBoard commented 3 years ago

I suspect the number of people using keyboard shortcuts on Twitter is small!

But I've just looked in to the shortcuts and there's a list in their How to Tweet article that it could be useful to match.