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Gwibber needs to go

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Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for Linux. It brings the most popular social networking web services to your desktop and gives you the ability to control how you communicate.

I’m sorry to say, but in its current form, Gwibber really sucks.  Some of the problems with it are that it doesn’t reliably display Twitter messages and that it doesn’t forget messages associated with deleted accounts.  Worst of all, however, is that it somehow manages to fill up the disk with enormous log files, bringing the machine to its knees.  It took a while to figure out the culprit, but Gwibber has been purged from my machine for the time being.

I hope they’ll be able to fix Gwibber in time for Ubuntu 10.10; it looks pretty nice, but right now, it’s a worse disaster than f-spot was.

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Written by extelopedia

2010-31 at 115

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