gwibber shouldn't truncate retweets

[Hippu]

Gwibber currently shortens retweets made by people you follow to 140 characters. Since gwibber also shows the whole "RT:@thepersonwhowasretweeted" thing this behavior causes some of the tweets to not be shown in their entirety.

I'm using gwibber 3.0.0.1 in ubuntu 11.04

[Hippu (teemu-heinamaki)]

Here is an example

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

I confirmed this on my account. It shouldn't be the business of gwibber to to truncate anything, if the tweet is valid on Twitter's servers then it should be displayed in full, no matter what.

[Nushio (nushio)]

While at it, implementing Twiitter's new RT api would be awesome.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

This issue seems fixed in gwibber since release 3.1.2 (in Oneiric), according to changelog:

gwibber (3.1.2-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Native retweet support
    - Display notifications when re-tweeting
    - Added messages and public streams, made home stream display everything
    - Scrolling timeline flickers between current and top (LP: #707320)
    - About gwibber is a bit outdated (LP: #748348)
    - Load more messages (LP: #559321)
    - Gwibber puts the newest tweets at the top and oldest at
      bottom (LP: #625863)
    - Scrolling skips bottom of a large message (LP: #782275)
    - should use gsettings rather than gconf (LP: #656329)
  * debian/patches/lpi.patch
    - Launchpad integration
  * debian/libgwibber-gtk2.symbols
    - Added symbols
  * debian/gwibber.desktop
    - Use gsettings for autostart key

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:14:14 -0400