Gwibber indicator should count and open "all messages" instead of "messages"
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwibber |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hello,
I use gwibber for my twitter account and the indicator shows some unfortunate behaviour:
When new messages arrive, only the ones that end up in the "new messages" tab are counted and displayed as a small number next to the icon in the starter or as "messages" in the indicator. But as far as I understand it, only the tweets that have neither a picture nor a link attached to them end up in that tab!
So the indicator ignores most of the tweets I get in my stream.
Also when I open gwibber via the indicator or the starter, it opens with the "messages" tab open. Again this contains only messages that have neither a link nor a picture attached. If I actually want to see all my new messages, I have to open the "all messages" tab.
This is one unnecessary click and the distinction between "messages" and "all messages" seems somewhat counter intuitive to me. I only found out why not all my messages are in the "messages" tab when reading a random comment here on launchpad.
To summarize:
Gwibber indicator shows only number of new "messages" (tweets without links or pictures) while I think it should show new "all messages". At least I would like an option to choose which it shows me.
When started, gwibber should directly open the "all messages" tab and not only the "messages". Again, being able to choose would meet all my wishes. ^^
To reproduce:
- Have a twitter account set up in gwibber.
- Get a tweet with nothing but text and one tweet with a link in it.
- See only one unread message shown on indicator and startet.
- Open gwibber and find the second message only after clicking on the "all messages" tab.
Disclaimer: I use the German translation of gwibber, so I'm not 100% sure about the names of the tabs. It's "Alle Nachrichten" (the left most, "all messages") and "Nachrichten" (the second, "messages") in German.
Gwibber version is 3.4.0 and it resides on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 system. I actually only noticed this behaviour after switching from 11.10 to 12.04, but I could not swear to it not being the same on 11.10.
| tags: | added: ui usability |
| Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gwibber: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| milestone: | none → 3.6 |
| status: | New → Triaged |
The count displayed in the unity launcher icon is a total unseen count of messages, replies, and private messages. It should be a total of all unseen from all streams. Right now it is calculating that the same way the messaging menu does, which displays messages, replies, and private messages.
I think it might be better to do the same thing for both, and display a total unseen for all streams.
In regard to which stream is selected by default, in the past gwibber did default to selecting the all messages tab. However, lots of people complained because it included streams like links, which for facebook at least, includes posts from facebook games. So depending who your friends are, lots of noise there. The rationale behind to changing that to default to "messages" was it was really a stream of your friends "status updates". Which is something people seem most interesting in seeing. I am not opposed to changing it back to default to all messages, but we need some consensious on that, we can't make everyone happy.
In general we need to spend some time looking at what we call the streams, we have generalized them between all the services, but "messages" isn't really messages, it is "status updates".