I'm running gwibber-2.0.0-1.478bzr.fc11.noarch. I have gwibber set to update only every 15 minutes, and I have it configured with Identi.ca, Twitter and Facebook accounts. Despite the 15min update time, the gwibber message pane window seems to repaint/update itself very frequently, e.g. as often as 10s. When it does so the scroll status is reset back to the top, thus losing the place where you were reading.
This makes trying to read through a list of messages very frustrating, if that list requires more than a scroll or two.
I think:
a) There is some problem with gwibber repainting/updating the message pane *far* more frequently than the configured update time
b) There is a secondary problem where Gwibber, on an update of the message pane, resets the scroll state. I think it should not do so - even if a) were fixed, I would be annoyed if I lost my place if I was reading as an update occured. (However, I note there is a pre-existing "Wont fix" bug about this same issue).
Great app though, thanks!
Apparently there's some suggestion this problem is specific to cases where the update pane is still in the first third or so of how it can scroll / the list of messages. I.e. that once you're scrolled past 1/3 that this problem no longer occurs.
I have just tested and it still occurs even with the pane scrolled to about 1/2-way down, also scrolled to almost near the bottom, also with the pane fully scrolled to the bottom.