Should show avatar image of the sender in notifications

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By the way, it looks like a nice idea, so I post a question to the gwibber's page in launchpad, about your suggestion:
https://answers.launchpad.net/gwibber/+question/102331
Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

Regards
malev

I think its something gwibber does not have yet implemented (correct me if I am wrong) so marking this wishlist. Thanks

Actually, this is a feature that existed in the 1.x series, so its lacking can be considered a regression.

If you peek at the source code, the part where the Gwibber icon is set on the notification bubble says "we use the icon until image caching is fixed" or something like that. So it seems that this is admittedly broken.

Confirm.
First, this is some kind of regression, since (as it has been said before) the 1.x branch has this feature;
second, this is would be very good from the user experience point.
However, this should keep as wishlist request, and if this feature will be implemented, then probably "Broadcast Messaging Preferences" window should has separate "check"-option in "Notification" frame (on "Options" tab), with name something like "Show avatar images".

We are waiting for WebKitGtk+ to expose a proper disk caching mechanism. I am hopeful that the necessary improvements to WebKitGtk+ will arrive in time for us to support this feature in Gwibber 3.0.

This issue really is really frustrating to me. What's the concern all about for getting "proper disk caching"? Can't gwibber just store the profile images into .gconf/apps/gwibber/images or something?

I thought this was a bug too. How hard could it be?
This program hasn't even got an install and can show thumbs.
http://nzjrs.github.com/facebook-notify/

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.31.4-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.31.4-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Merged back in i18n fixes from before the sqlite merge, they seem to
      have gotten lost (LP: #538981)
    - Make "Lists" translatable
    - Make "Search" translatable
    - Order the result of new_items by time so we get notifications in the correct
      order (LP: #499323)
    - Only notify for the last 10 messages (except responses), as it is that is
      100 seconds of notifications displaying.
    - Always notify for responses (mentions)
    - Cache avatars for notifications and client (LP: #527446)
    - Fixed scrolling problems including scrollwheel support (LP: #611276)
  * debian/gwibber.desktop
    - Changed the key looked at for autostart
  * debian/control
    - Added depends on python-oauth, required for buzz
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:27:45 -0400