Feature Request: Stream personal timeline into notifications screen

[playforvoices1]

Would be nice to have a Preference's account plugin like the Twitter one, which stream the personal timeline into the SFOS notification screen.

[poetaster]

By personal timeline do you mean 'home' ?

[playforvoices1]

Yes, home :)

[nephros]

AFAICS the SailfishOS Event View that supports widgets like Twitter does uses libsocialcache and related technology.

This means to support something like this "as intended" would require:

• integration into the Settings/Accounts infrastructure for server/credential storage
• implementation of a libsocialcache plugin for storage of feed, images etc.
• implementation of Mastodon feed pulling via msyncd/buteo buteo-sync-plugins-social
• implementation of the QML side (event view plugin)

Doable, and certainly beneficial for more than just the vent feed, but most of this seems to be out-of-scope for Tooter the app.

And given the complexity of ActivityPub, the libsocialcache and buteo thing might be quit a huge task, not sure.

I wonder whether doing the same procedure for RSS/Atom feeds would be more beneficial, as Mastodon can provide RSS out of the box, and that might be more useful.

[nephros]

That being said, Tooter could of course just abuse the Notifications system and display Toots from Home as notification(s).

[playforvoices1]

But as you mentioned. A build in feed reader with notification support would be more useful. There you can add whatever you want. But the old Twitter plugin on SFOS was very charming. Nicely integrated.

[poetaster]

I have to admit, I don't really want notifications so it hasn't been a priority. I'd like to fix the current bugs (when app is on, notifications stream to the event view AFTER you've already seen them in the app). It could be an optional but it would be a lot of work. Currently, the login is oauth via Amber which I'd have to revisit.

In the main, I don't want notifications UNLESS I'm using the app, which I'm not sure is even possible if I hand off to msyncd/buteo?

[nephros]

Definitely. The purpose of msync/buteo is to get a low-bandwidth feed, and the content to be available offline.

And completely independent from an app.

So, the opposite of what you describe.