• Launchpad Entry: desktop-lucid-social-from-the-start

• Created: 2009-11-13

• Contributors: KenVanDine

• Packages affected: gwibber

Summary

Release Note

It is mandatory.

Rationale

User stories

Assumptions

Design

Implementation

UI Changes

Code Changes

Migration

Test/Demo Plan

Unresolved issues

BoF agenda and discussion

https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-social-from-the-start

Questions

• How can we expand the use of social services on the desktop?
  • - existing opportunies? - new ideas?
• First run experience?
  • - How do users discover the social capabilies of the ubuntu desktop? - How do users configure their accounts?
• New gwibber features?
  • - twitter lists?

Research

• - 9 people of mixed background observed

  - People migrate between social services in groups (e.g. MySpace->Facebook) - Three types of users of social networks:

  • - Door: (majority)
    • - Very private. Want to have controls on their service. - Use SNS as initial contact, but follow up out-of-band. - Don't want direct messages or to use SNS for entire conversation. - Would like updates from other people on desktop (e.g. tweets displayed via notify-osd) - Would not like their information to be sent without opting in
    - Mirror:
    • - Record their lives. SNS is a personal scrapbook of important events. - Images important. - Broadcasting info is not primary goal of usage. - Interested in what others are doing and compare to themselves. - Would like F-Spot integration to publish.
    - Room:
    • - Do activities (e.g. use applications in Facebook) - Interact with other people often. - Self identity is tied to communicating with other people and things. - Gossip. - Would like software center integration to see what others use.

Proposals/Ideas

• - Stick with gwibber
  • - Good relationship with upstream - Mojito too hard to integrate into gwibber at this current time
  - Tweets from Software Center - Evolution contacts integrated with microblog people - FSpot shared albums automatically sent to Gwibber - History - Screensaver accessing their photos/friends photos - Collect links from social services - Be careful not to add features by default that only a minority will use - this
  • will reduce the overall experience - Consider making plugins and allow people to customise their experience
  - Add GTK+ widgets for tweets like empathy does for IM - We want to link information from objects to tweets so don't have to manually
  • type information (e.g. installed package X and like it - if can do from application center then X can be automatically filled in)

Off topic

• - Gwibber stability (in other session)

Sample code to send tweet from any application

via dbus

import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
db_mb_obj = bus.get_object("com.Gwibber", "/com/gwibber/Microblog")
microblog = dbus.Interface(db_mb_obj, "com.Gwibber")

args = ["This is a test message"]

microblog.operation({
  "args": args,
  "opname": "send",
  })

with the python API

import gwibber.utils
foo = gwibber.utils.GwibberPublic()
foo.post("This is a test message")

tweet deck multi-column UI

POR Regarding Broadcasting

• Banning auto-tweeting on the desktop
• pimp out the gwibber UI

Gwibber Actions:

• add a convenience function like "micro_blog_all"
• add a widget that standardizes microblogging user interface
• add a dialog that wraps that widget
• already have the ability to get twitter feeds, should add more
• spacial/temporal intersection notifications. "your favorite band x will be
  • in city y when you are." (e.g. from Last FM)
• Avatar aggregator + gwibber
• Auto-background from gwibber sources
• back ground of tag cloud from things that users are mentioning
• want to have a query that means we could get a more complete photo stream
  • Manuel to add tagging of photos with contacts picker, etc...
  • segal to create a script to make backgrounds out of picutres from the photostream
  • segal to make a screensaver out of feeds, photos, streams
  • Ken/Rodney to move gwibber account setup into desktop

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