Gwibber does not display recipient of "wall to wall" posts [Facebook]

Bug #522991 reported by Anand Kumria
122
This bug affects 25 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gwibber
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ken VanDine
gwibber (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gwibber

1)

eve:[~]% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

2)

eve:[~]% apt-cache policy gwibber
gwibber:
  Installed: 2.29.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.29.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.29.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)

A wall-to-wall set of posts should display who is posting (the From) is posting to another persons (the To) wall.

4)

I have a set of friends who tend to communicate amongst themselves by sending wall posts to each other.

In Gwibber these are simply displayed as 'posts', whereas in Facebook they are displayed as 'From -> To' posts.

In essence, I've been CC'd on their post, as it is (semi) public.

Sometimes I can infer who is talking to who - by the content of the message. Often, I need to click through to Facebook to see who the conversation participants are.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 17 02:51:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gwibber 2.29.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686

Revision history for this message
Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote :
summary: - gwibber does not display "wall to wall" posts properly
+ Gwibber does not display recipient of "wall to wall" posts [Facebook]
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Victor Vargas (kamus)
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Sam L. (somethinginteres) wrote :

I'm having the same issue. Status of this bug is currently set as low but I would suggest the priority should be higher as FB wall to wall posts are quite common and without proper implementation in gwibber it is hard to understand when conversations are taking place.

Revision history for this message
BirD (bird22) wrote :

Issue makes Gwibber client useless for Facebook in my opinion. I would like to see the bug worked on as well.

Revision history for this message
Dr. Kenobi (drkenobi) wrote :

Yeah! This is something Gwibber must improve! It's really annoying because each time you want to know in which wall the message is posted, you have to open the browser!

C de-Avillez (hggdh2)
tags: added: patch
Revision history for this message
Doug (p4erzzwxm3pvh2oicseg-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I really do feel that this is a serious downside to using Gwibber as a Facebook client, it completely removes one core aspect of the site. Is it really necessary for me to open Gwibber if I'm going to have to open Firefox anyways just to see who a particular conversation was between?

Revision history for this message
Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005) wrote :

It shouldn't be marked as Low since wall to wall posts are very frequent in Facebook, and if Gwibber can't display them correctly, it's useless.

Changed in gwibber:
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 3.0
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in gwibber:
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in gwibber:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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