[wishlist] Public Timeline Tab

I wouldn't mind taking a stab at this - would anyone be available to mentor, or is there any gwibber documentation I could read up on?

Thanks

Ok, first attempt at anything like this, so feedback appreciated :) Published a branch with a public timeline preference, and support for twitter.

Suggestions for how to implement a global enable/disable would be appreciated.

Nice work! Perhaps for a global enable/disable, we could have a checkbox item in the View menu that toggles the visibility of a public tab. When the tab is visible, the accounts that have the public stream enabled will be aggregated together into that tab. What do you think?

Sounds reasonable, I'll give it a go - thanks :)

Ok, my branch now behaves like that - Checkbox enable/disable in the view menu. When disabled, the tab is hidden, and updates are not requested - I had to add another parameter to add_msg_tab and add_scrolled_parent - let me know if those changes are acceptable :)

I have come across an issue which I'm not sure how to tackle though; when notification bubbles are enabled, they are spammed by messages from the public timeline, to the point where they drown out 'genuine' message notifications, or worse, system ones.

How do you feel is the best way to identify if a message is from a public timeline, so that we can (optionally?) exclude them from show_notification_bubbles? Just a case of adding another property to the protocol's Message class and plumbing that in per protocol? Set up a base class for all the protocols to use with a view to moving all the common properties into that - or is that impractical, given the different plumbing protocols inevitably employ? </brain dump>

Thanks for any feedback :)

Side note - I'm going to try to hack in friendfeed public timeline support tonight to check it can handle multiple public feeds correctly.

Branch now has friendfeed public timeline support, and I've also re-factored the code to support the idea of a tab which can be toggled, rather than code specific for the public tab.

As per irc conversation, notifications for public timeline messages are now disabled - tabs now have a show_notifications property, which is true by default.

Pushed one more version, which will clear the contents of the tab when hidden. I noticed afterwards that the clearMessages() function referenced in client.py doesn't appear to be implemented yet, but figured I'd leave the code, it does no harm at the moment.

Not sure if it was right, but I used the 'bzr --fixes' switch on this bug as per the bazaar docs. Should I also propose the branch for merging, or is that traditionally done by a maintainer?

You can propose merges yourself. I'll do a complete review this weekend and then get it into trunk. It's looking really good! :-)

Done, let me know if you want anything changing :)

@Darren: Thanks for contributing this feature! :-)