Tweet, tweet: a new update to the popular multi-column desktop Twitter app ‘Polly’ has been released to the wild.
Polly v0.93.11 bring some minor fixes and improvements with it, including:
- New icon theme (Numix)
- Fedora packaging fixes
- HTTPS link optimisations
- Fix for ‘category’ in .desktop file
- Internal keyring module
Ubuntu Messaging Menu support remains non-functional in this release.
The next major update to Polly, version 0.94, is currently in development, and sees the application ported over to GTK3.
Install Polly Twitter App in Ubuntu 12.04 +
While Polly is badged by its developer as being of ‘pre-alpha’ quality it is perfectly useable on a daily basis.
Polly 0.93.11 can be installed from the official Polly Unstable PPA. Packages are provided for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and up.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conscioususer/polly-unstable sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install polly
Once installed Polly can be launched from the Ubuntu Dash by searching for ‘Polly’.