Thanks, Tony. I must have missed your message the first time around. I definitely agree that Microblogging should be removed until we have this sorted out.
Mike On 14 April 2013 13:33, Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Mike > > > On 14 April 2013 16:35, Mike Romard <mrom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Kevin. >> >> Since Microblogging was my section, I have to ask, where/when was it >> announced that Gwibber will no longer be installed by default? It was still >> included in the version of 13.04 (alpha or beta... I don't recall which) >> that I had installed while I was working on the section. >> >> I see in this OMG Ubuntu article that I found this morning ( >> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/gwibber-not-in-ubuntu-13-04-install-friends) >> that Gwibber will be replaced by Friends, which also won't be installed by >> default for 13.04. Do we know if we should expect Friends to be in by >> default for the 13.10 release? >> >> In any case, thank you for removing the Gwibber content. >> >> Mike Romard >> >> >> On 13 April 2013 19:23, Kevin Godby <god...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I've removed mention of Wubi from the manual since it's not currently >>> supported. >>> >>> I've also removed the Microblogging section since it documented >>> Gwibber which is no longer installed by default. >>> >>> —Kevin >>> >> > I put the following on the Manual Mailing list on April 10. > > --------------------------------------------------- > Friends Social networking for 13.04 is now handled by the Friends > service, which replaces the backend Gwibber provided in previous Ubuntu > releases. There is no transition required, if you have social networking > accounts setup in Ubuntu Online Accounts, the Friends service will just > work. The Gwibber lens in Unity has been replaced with a Friends lens and > works in much the same way. The Gwibber client application is no longer > included by default, for similar functionality friends-app can be installed > from Software Center. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview > > I have been frequently re-installing 13.04 on USB stick since before then > and to my dismay all the social media apps seen to be in a state of > dis-array. > > If anyone still has Gwibber, then that is because it was an early 13.04 > release or was an upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04. Gwibber may be in Universe > and can still be installed from the Software Centre, but when I tried to, > about a week ago, I just got a message saying it was not in the > repository. In any case, reviews of Gwibber are very disparaging, with > hardly a good word to be said about it. > > 'Friends' seems to only support the Friends lens in the Dash which seems > to a very poor relation of the Gwibber lens that I have in 12.04. I cannot > find the 'friends-app', referred to above, in the Software Centre. I can > only get Facebook post in the Friends lens. No tweets. I think this is > because the Online Accounts manager only supports Facebook and not > Twitter. Altogether a complete mess. > > Empathy is also going down hill as well. The UI is now terrible, only > supporting large avatars and so being a disaster for anyone with lots of > contact. It too has bad reviews in the Software Centre. I haven't found a > way yet to enable IRC. I tried to get into #ubuntu-meeting from it last > night (using 13.04 on USB) and failed. Again, I think that is because of a > lack of support in the Online Accounts manager. This time, for IRC > accounts. > > For now, the Instant Messaging section of the manual is OK, but I had to > propose the removal of Microblogging at last night's meeting. Maybe, > Microblogging will come good and something new can be written, but for now > there is so much uncertainty and a lack of information from the developers > about what is happening. > > Tony >
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