Friends does not present RT in official way: missing original avatar and pseudo, messages truncated

What is the problem here? It used to work in Gwibber if I recall correctly, didn't it?

Well we've come a long way since Gwibber... some things got lost along the way.

Okay, retweets seems to be handled by the entities feature: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/entities

This seem to be pretty easy to implement. We need to add a new field to the status "retweeted_by" (or "shared_by") and the rest should stay the same.

@Ken: are you still working on this? If not I would take this bug.

A new field in the dee model? I would highly recommend against that, it is very painful to change that, it requires coordination between lp:friends, lp:friends-app, lp:qml-friends, and not to mention it breaks all downstream consumers (such as facebook core app). model schema changes are *sooo* painful...

 I could at least fix the truncation issue without changing the model. But Twitter apps usually show the "Retweeted by ..." below the message (as described in the bug report).

How is retweeting/sharing handled with Facebook? Maybe we should discuss a concept for this, before something like this is done.

Yes, the solution must be as protocol-agnostic as possible, especially if we are touching the dee model schema (oh god I am having PTSD flashbacks from the last time we changed it)

If I see this correctly in the attached picture, Facebook shares currently are displayed like normal posts. Here we would also need a shared_by field That would also not be the native Facebook behaviour (Facebook posts the other way around with a "via ..." field) but everybody would understand what was going on.

At least the truncation is resolved now. So retweets are somewhat usable in Friends.

It just came to me that the share button actually does something different. It only takes the link/image of the original message. The rest is written by the person who shared the message.

So maybe adding a "original poster" field instead of a "shared by" field would be more intuitive.

I propose adding the follwoing two fields to the DeeModel

* connectionType (can be "to", "share" or "via")
* connectionTarget (the user/item that is interacted with)

That way we could support the facebook share, twitter retweet and also the facebook wallposts. This also adds the possiblity to add other types of connections (e.g. liking pages).

Rob, is this something we could do? Maybe not for 14.04 but in the next cycle? Guess I will try it out in a PPA anyways and report my epxeriences :)

This would also be perfect for private messages in twitter. They are currently displayed like normal posts and there is no indication to what person they are addressed.

Yeah, I couldn't possibly do this this cycle... way too swamped right now, sorry.