Comment 5 for bug 572753

To Joe_Bishop: Could you please use plain English in your posts? As far as I get it, your previous post should read "Go do it yourselves. No one needs it but Ruskas and Hohlandi users (your captain)." With Ruskas being negative of Russia and Hohlandi is being negative of Ukrain, am I correct?

Now back to our horses. I came across this wishlist report after reading Ryan Paul's article on arstechnica, as I was curious about writing Gwibber plugins. I do not use social networks personally and neither am excited about them. I do recognize its growing importance though, including national networks. We do support QQ and other national protocols with Empathy and there is nothing wrong with Gwibber having natural support for vkontakte.ru

There is a Rhythmbox plugin available which gave me access to tons of music on vkontakte.ru so I am certain that this resource is popular and that Russian community is actively developing, and not just sitting there doing nothing. Here is the link to launchpad https://launchpad.net/rhythmbox-plugin-vkontakte It can be used to get an idea on how to use API for basic things like user authentication and so on.

My understanding is that vkontakte.ru API is poorly documented with lots of undocumented features existing, and others being slightly different from what is documented. And that is why I turned to this wishlist report to learn exact protocol integration requirements, from Gwibber developers.

And since I am not using social networks personally, I would like to ask community out there as to whether there are any benefits from Gwibber vkontakte.ru support compared to web interface. Hope both Gwibber and Empathy will soon be supporting vkontakte.ru