[wishlist] Distinctively categorize who you follow

Bug #338915 reported by bryen
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Bug Description

As my list of follows slowly begins to grow, its getting harder for me to remember what part of my life those people come from. For example, I have people from the openSUSE world, some from media, some from my a11y work, some personal friends, and so forth. Especially the a11y ones which seems to be growing faster lately, that I follow but don't exactly know them. It would be nice if we could put some distinctive mark on people we follow, perhaps icons, colorization or something so we instantly remember why we're following them.

Taking it a step further, perhaps we could then click on that icon under a tweet and it opens up a search for all friends tagged with that icon.

Just an idea, but it would really help me to regain some sanity when I'm looking at a tweet and don't remember why I'm following in the first place. :-)

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Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote :

On Friday 06 March 2009 19:52:53 bryen wrote:
> It would be nice if we could put some distinctive mark on
> people we follow, perhaps icons, colorization or something so we
> instantly remember why we're following them.

Why not use the ppltags (from identica) and show then on the right corner of each user?

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Ryan Paul (segphault) wrote :

Support for contact lists and message grouping is part of the post-1.0 roadmap:
http://live.gnome.org/Gwibber/Roadmap#head-d34085d1b2cbb80bd89b17816e3b55fab76f9db2

We definitely appreciate feedback on how you would like to see this implemented. I'm currently leaning towards making a generic filtering system with a UI similar to the one used for message filters in Evolution. You would be able to create a group and assign filtering parameters to it and then you could selectively choose to hide those messages, display them in a separate tab, or have them marked distinctively with a specific border color etc. Does that sound like it would meet your needs?

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote : Re: [Bug 338915] Re: Distinctively categorize who you follow

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:15 PM, BUGabundo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Why not use the ppltags (from identica) and show then on the right
> corner of each user?

I would strongly hesitate against using those tags because A) they
aren't necessarily how you would categorize those people, B) some
people have a TON of tags on their identi.ca profile page and C) it
would only work for laconica installations and thus is only a partial
solution.

The idea (Ryan's) of user-defined groups within gwibber and then
having a separate tab for those groups would be nice.

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Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote : Re: Distinctively categorize who you follow

On Saturday 07 March 2009 15:55:07 Greg Grossmeier wrote:
> A) they aren't necessarily how you would categorize those people,
> B) some people have a TON of tags on their identi.ca profile page

I meant the tags that each user applies to others, not the ones ppl apply to themselves

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Changed in gwibber:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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