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Witty Identi.ca Client?

Finally found some time to play with Darrel Miller’s Identi.ca patch for Witty Twitter client. Good news: it works.

If you want to try it too, this is what I did:

1. Checked out the source code of Witty Twitter client using TortoiseSVN subversion client on Windows Vista.
2. Downloaded Darrel Miller’s Identi.ca patch for Witty.
3. Applied the patch using TortoiseSVN(no patch/cygwin tools for Windows needed!).
   (I got errors related to ITweet.cs in the patch file, so I edited it manually; http://ur1.ca/0tx. Use my modified patch file if you get similar errors.)
4. Built the patched Witty source code in Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition 2008(with no configuration changes).
5. Ran Witty(from “Release” directory), entered Identi.ca login details(alas, you are out of luck if you use only OpenID based login), and there I have all my contacts’ Identi.ca messages :)
6. I can upload the patched source code/built binary files somewhere if anybody wants to play with it without going through the patching/building business.

So this is fun.

Additional information:
What is Witty: “Witty is a free, open source Twitter client for Windows Vista and XP powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). “

What is WPF: “Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.”

What is Identi.ca: “Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.”