*chirp - believe the hype?

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162024673 & http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162055645

*chirp is a WPF Twitter app which has seem to be getting quite a bit of good press from people I follow on Twitter. However; as nice as some of the features are - it's sadly not polished enough in terms of functionality (or doesn't do things as well as other clients) to be able to use it as a main twitter client.

First off is the anti-ailising problem with the font. This seems to be a problem that almost all WPF/Silverlight apps suffer from. There's a post here on how you can get back the clear-type font we're all used to with either Air apps or Windows desktop apps but it seems that you'll need to cut back on the features that make the app look nice such as shadows and animations.

Another is when the program is minimised - it doesn't hide away in the System tray - it just stays in the taskbar. This is quite annoying as I have plenty of things that need to be in the taskbar and a twitter client is not one of them.

Favourites is a nice idea - similar to Groups on Tweetdeck except it will only show the latest tweet for that person. It's not really handy for following twitter conversations or really following the people you really want to follow.

I could go on about the things on the app which I don't like - I'm hoping it'll will be continuously updated with little things sorted (like adding in toast for new tweets) and some extra needed functionality. If it isn't going to be worked on any further then open the code up, put it on Codeplex or Google Code and let the community build it up.

The click-once install works really nicely although I am still confused why there's a normal version and a .net 3.5 SP1 version - this isn't explained on the site and both versions seem to be the same. The animations are also great which is nice to see and don't take away from the main application too much.

It'll be interesting to see what comes of the app if anything...