diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/Manifest b/net-im/cawbird/Manifest
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+DIST v1.4.1.tar.gz 653062 BLAKE2B 5c8448ff37349f243f6b2e378621c561720c7648f8f79eb4c04301b331fa050ee5d7d9874644e89b41b6d613279e2be3d2d96c89c0a1bc9795984b6630fc056c SHA512 bef80fbbbcaf325e6f8c57bce6146eb795f7bb39804f10fada3b529a6439b73f8506f6015d7221b90ed1f1862c79886ee86eebaa244b968bfc60c50ffa5e8abe
diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/cawbird-1.4.1.ebuild b/net-im/cawbird/cawbird-1.4.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+VALA_USE_DEPEND="vapigen"
+
+inherit vala meson gnome2-utils git-r3 xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz"
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird.git"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64 ~arm64"
+IUSE="+introspection +vala"
+REQUIRED_USE="vala? ( introspection )"
+
+DEPEND="
+	gui-libs/gtk
+	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.22
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.44
+	>=dev-libs/json-glib-1.0
+	>=dev-db/sqlite-3.0
+	>=net-libs/libsoup-2.4
+	net-libs/liboauth
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19
+	media-libs/gst-plugins-base
+	media-libs/gst-plugins-bad
+	media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav
+	>=app-text/gspell-1.0
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+		vala? ( $(vala_depend) )
+		dev-util/meson
+		dev-libs/gobject-introspection
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/$PN-${PV}"
+
+src_configure() {
+        local emesonargs=(
+                -Dconsumer_key_base64=VmY5dG9yRFcyWk93MzJEZmhVdEk5Y3NMOA==
+		-Dconsumer_secret_base64=MThCRXIxbWRESDQ2Y0podzVtVU13SGUyVGlCRXhPb3BFRHhGYlB6ZkpybG5GdXZaSjI=                
+        )        
+        meson_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/metadata.xml b/net-im/cawbird/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>gjdijkman@gjdwebserver.nl</email>
+		<name>Gerben Jan Dijkman</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+	Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API.
+
+	Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<doc>https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird</doc>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird/issues</bugs-to>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>