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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I would like to hear your opinions on this matter.

Gwibber 2.30 in Lucid adds user-specific entries to the
Messaging Menu when a new broadcast is received. When
you click on any of those entries, the Gwibber window
simply pops up, and nothing specific to the broadcast
whose indicator you clicked is done. Seems a little
bit... underwhelming.

Gwibber 2.0 was slightly different, as it opened up
the replies stream. But that made sense only back then
because (a) indicators were only added for mentions,
while 2.30 allows general indicators and (b) there
was only one stream, while 2.30 allows multiple
streams to be shown.

I gave a lot of thought on it, and couldn't figure out
a good solution. If the user set up Gwibber for
notify/indicate anything and not only mentions, things
can get incredibly noisy and an Evolution-like
approach (entries per account, with unread count)
sound better than message-specific entries. But if
the user *did* set notifications/indicators for only
mentions, then message-specific indicators sound
better.

And, for both cases, the same question remains: what
should happen when you click on the indicator? This
is particularly hairy when you consider that the
user can have multiple streams being shown, and
there might be intersections among those streams
(ex: one stream for Twitter, other for all replies)

Thoughts?