No way to configure friends-app or filter posts

[Barry Warsaw]

AFAICT, there is no way to filter posts, even like the old gwibber interface. Say I only want to view my twitter feed, or private messages, or home page, or search for something. Even though the old gwibber button semantics were fuzzy, there's nothing like that at all with friends-app. It's just a firehose of posts.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

My understanding is that friends-app does have some ability to filter the stream (eg, we were talking about filtering the stream to only show facebook, for the purposes of the facebook core app), though you're correct in observing that there's no UI for allowing the user to search their feeds. Should be relatively simple to do, just needs some UI to be hooked up to existing functionality under the hood.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

As we get notifications for mentions, there already seems to be some kind of support for filtering. All that is missing is a nice GUI for it. The best way would be to have several tabs at the top, like in other Core Apps.

In the future it would also be very cool if we could create custom tabs that do some user-defined filtering.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Yeah, I wrote the code that decides whether or not to notify for any given message, and unfortunately that is very specific to the notifcation engine and not really generally applicable to the qml frontend. But the qml bindings do have some ability to do filtering on their own, it just needs to get hooked up to a UI.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Hi,

I just implemented a simple filter for mentions. friends-qml actually already exposes this functionality. In the future we could also support creating custom streams.

https://code.launchpad.net/~kai-mast/friends-app/friends-app/+merge/193696

As soon as this is merged I think we can close this bugreport. Adding custom streams is not that important for now, but showing mentions adds a lot of value to the app in my opinion.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

We actually used to have this feature, but then ken disabled it, and I
can't remember why. gonna need his input before we can approve this.
On Nov 3, 2013 3:06 AM, "Kai Mast" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just implemented a simple filter for mentions. friends-qml actually
> already exposes this functionality. In the future we could also support
> creating custom streams.
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~kai-mast/friends-app/friends-
> app/+merge/193696
>
> As soon as this is merged I think we can close this bugreport. Adding
> custom streams is not that important for now, but showing mentions adds
> a lot of value to the app in my opinion.
>
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> Title:
> No way to configure friends-app or filter posts
>
> Status in “friends-app” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> AFAICT, there is no way to filter posts, even like the old gwibber
> interface. Say I only want to view my twitter feed, or private
> messages, or home page, or search for something. Even though the old
> gwibber button semantics were fuzzy, there's nothing like that at all
> with friends-app. It's just a firehose of posts.
>
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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On Nov 04, 2013, at 05:35 AM, Robert Bruce Park wrote:

>We actually used to have this feature, but then ken disabled it, and I
>can't remember why. gonna need his input before we can approve this.

IIRC, I had requested something like this so I could filter on just FB or
Twitter feeds.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Oh, nm, I was thinking of the @mentions vs private messages tabs we used to have. Right, friends-app never had tabs for different protocols.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

My branch was merged btw. So now there are two tabs "Timeline" and "Mentions".

Friends still needs support for creating customs Tabs/Columns. Support for this has landed recently in the Toolkit: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1124071
Currently, I don't have time for this as I personally don't need this feature but it should be very straightforward. The Feed element already has a field for streamtype and accounttype.