gwibber prepends "is" to messages sent to facebook

now i know why my message 'test' was shown 'is test' in facebook

seems its already fixed in trunk http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/revision/928

There's no need to prepend is as an option since you can simple just type it. It isn't so hard typing it rather that going to preferences and enable that option and the next day disable it. Just a thought though. Thanks!

i have uploaded gwibber with the fix to gwibber-team ppa https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-team/+archive/ppa

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.91.1-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.91.1-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New unstable release
    - statusnet:
      * Fixed an if statement that was causing errors to get lost in some cases
      * Enable the public stream by default, it is useful for dedicated
        status.net instances
    - facebook:
      * Ported to use the Graph API
      * Fixed rendering of "likes", and improved display of links, videos,
        photos, etc
      * Tell facebook not to prepend "is " to posts (LP: #674894)
    - dispatcher:
      * Handle python-indicate from karmic, the indicator doesn't send
        a timestamp
      * Fixed failure to notify for private messages (LP: #663377)
      * Treat strings starting with "www." as a href (LP: #324809)
    - client:
      * Merged in keyboard control from Michael Hall (LP: #621953)
      * Don't traceback older version of pygtk which didn't have gtk.InfoBar
      * added missing public.png icons, for 24x24 and 32x32
    - accounts: Show the auth button if we know there was an auth failure
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:36:50 -0500

The link http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/revision/928 does not seem to be linking to the specific change?

It was included in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/revision/922 as part of a much bigger merge, bit the specific change was:

- result = self._get("users.setStatus", status=message, status_includes_verb=False)
+ result = self._get("me/feed", message=message, status_includes_verb=True, post=True)

Should be trivial to backport to maverick, facebook just changed the way they interpret the status_includes_verb argument.

However, I should highlight that specific change won't work with the old rest API used in 2.32.x, it would be more like:

result = self._get("users.setStatus", status=message, status_includes_verb=True)

this is what my branch did:

- result = self._get("users.setStatus", status=message, status_includes_verb=False)
+ result = self._get("users.setStatus", status=message, status_includes_verb=True)

there was a commit in gwibber trunk before the facebook plugin was ported to graph API:
 "Tell facebook not to prepend "is " to post" (now its log is lost in trunk)

i backported that. (the same what you suggested in comment#8)

Accepted gwibber into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

It works :)

Can someone add this bug to future gwibber stable release 2.32.3 ?

This has been fixed in the stable branch and will be included in the next stable release

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.32.2-0ubuntu2

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gwibber (2.32.2-0ubuntu2) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/do_not_prepend_is.patch
    - do not prepend 'is ' on facebook status updates (LP: #674894)
 -- Omer Akram <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:14:22 +0500

The users of Lucid exist too. Lucid is a LTS version!!
Where is the correction of this annoying bug on Lucid?

What's the file I have to modify to remove this in my gwibber 2.30.3-0ubuntu1?

Please backport to Lucid.

I would also like to see this backported to Lucid as it is an LTS release.

we are trying

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Sazhen86 <email address hidden> wrote:

> I would also like to see this backported to Lucid as it is an LTS
> release.
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> Title:
> gwibber prepends "is" to messages sent to facebook
>
> Status in Gwibber:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gwibber” source package in Maverick:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gwibber
>
> Ubuntu 10.10
> Gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu1
>
> I'm glad to see Gwibber is able to post to facebook again, but now it's
> prepending "is" to my messages. While this is intended behavior by the
> programmers, not EVERY facebook user uses that messages schema. It needs to
> be made into an option that can easily be toggled per message. Perhaps a
> check box next to the text entry field labeled "Prepend 'is' on FB", or
> something similar.
>
>
>
>
>

Accepted gwibber into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Can anyone please give the gwibber in lucid-proposed some testing and report back? We are currently wrapping up the 10.04.2 point release, and need to verify proposed updates really soon now. Thank you!

I have verified the fix in lucid a few days ago and it works fine. it seems I forgot to mention it here :/

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:00 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Can anyone please give the gwibber in lucid-proposed some testing and
> report back? We are currently wrapping up the 10.04.2 point release, and
> need to verify proposed updates really soon now. Thank you!

It works for me, thanks for fixing this!

Sam Denison
<email address hidden>

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:32 +0000, Sam Denison wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:00 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Can anyone please give the gwibber in lucid-proposed some testing and
> > report back? We are currently wrapping up the 10.04.2 point release, and
> > need to verify proposed updates really soon now. Thank you!
>
> It works for me, thanks for fixing this!

Sorry, I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu .

Sam out.

It works for me in 10.04 as well. Many thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.30.3-0ubuntu2

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gwibber (2.30.3-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/do_not_prepend_is.patch:
    - Do not prepend 'is' in facebook status updates. (LP: #674894)
 -- Omer Akram <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:23:12 +0500