Gwibber

[wishlist] Ability to reply/comment on facebook status stream

Bug #286971 reported by Rory McCann
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gwibber
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ryan Paul

Bug Description

Facebook status updates have a little 'reply' image, however clicking on it does nothing. Facebook has the concept of 'comments' on status updates, this is what replying to a post should do. However there is no way to do it from inside gwibber.

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

Is this even supported by facebook? The ability to comment on someone's status _outside_ of facebook?

Changed in gwibber:
status: New → Incomplete
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Ryan Paul (segphault) wrote :

As far as I know, the Facebook API does not support posting comments on status items. The real bug here is that the Facebook items are showing a reply arrow. The arrow should only be visible on items that support reply functionality. I'll work on a fix for that in the new replytab branch and try to get it merged with all the other current development features.

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Joshua Panter (josh.p) wrote :

Clicking on this reply also seems to break all of the reply links in every message; ie, after clicking on one of the facebook reply icons, none of the others will do anything until a restart of gwibber.

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sampattuzzi (sam-pattuzzi) wrote :

The reply link should take you to the web page where you can then reply. This would be the most sensible way for it to gracefully degrade.

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Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

Now that facebook have enabled more developer access to read and write to the 'stream', Ryan has started working support for this in Gwibber.

summary: - Unable to reply (ie comment) on facebook status
+ [wishlist] Ability to reply/comment on facebook status stream
Changed in gwibber:
assignee: nobody → segphault
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Incomplete → In Progress
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rickle (rick-hallocks) wrote :

Yes I would really like this, just as described to begin with, It sure beats the clumsy slow interface on facebook.
then extra, if I could somehow set it to do a reply all, that would put my reply on twitter & othrs with a #facebook #username,

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Colin Dean (colindean) wrote :

It should be noted that Ryan committed the fix and marked a dup of this bug as Fix Committed [1].

[1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/387044/comments/1

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Ryan Paul (segphault) wrote :

Indeed. This is now fully supported in 2.0.

Changed in gwibber:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Miloš Mandarić (mandzo18) wrote :

Does it work now? I'm using rev. 396 and can't reply.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in gwibber:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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CryNGRoad (nathan-cryroad) wrote :

I am using 2.30.0.1
Replying to a message in Gwibber is not reflected in Gwibber. When I click the Sent button (presumably there to show me what I have sent to Facebook) nothing is shown. Replies from Gwibber do show up as comments on the FB website, but if I have to open up the website just to view a complete post before I reply, it seems to defeat the purpose of having it on my desktop.

In other words, how can I view complete messages, with comments in Gwibber. It would make sense to me that when a message is selected in Gwibber, there is a way to show all replies.

Or, maybe I'm just missing the whole point of Gwibber...
Is there some better documentation out there somewhere?

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 286971] Re: [wishlist] Ability to reply/comment on facebook status stream

CryNGRoad that would be bug 541831 :-)

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