David Zeuthen wrote: > >> I would imagine Telepathy/Empathy to use GOA to get the Chat accounts > >> that is configured in GOA (in the above example, it would be Google > >> Talk from zeut...@gmail.com and Facebook Chat for davidz25). I would > >> use an Empathy specific preferences window (not appearing in > >> gnome-control-center I think) to add e.g. my ICQ account. > > > > Could you elaborate on this, e.g. why would ICQ and other types of > > online accounts be deported to a specific preferences window? > > I was mostly just thinking out loud - and that thought came out > because it would seem weird to both "Online Accounts" and a "Messaging > and VoIP Accounts" items in the control center (that, and we have > limited space there).
> I guess my view is that mainstream/branded accounts (such as Google, > Facebook etc.) would be handled by the "Online Accounts" panel while > something as baroque as ICQ (it was once big but isn't really anymore) > would be handled by app-specific preference windows. Or maybe "Online > Accounts" is used to configure not only something like GOA (e.g. > branded accounts) but also Telepathy. I don't know. I'm not the best > person to make that call - ask the GNOME designers? I am also of the opinion we want a single panel; but I think the design of the "online accounts" panel should allow the accounts that are currently in the "messaging and voip accounts" panel; nothing really new here, I had that old mockup in mind: http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/control%20center/web-services/web-services-2.png > > This is somehow related to the "Contacts" thread, where it is said we > > could replace the empathy contact list with the shell; in this scheme > > there's no place any longer for that specific preferences window, and > > it makes sense (to me) to have it in the online accounts panel, along > > others. > > Sure. FWIW, I think we probably need some high-level design input that > takes all these currently moving pieces and proposals into account. > Again, I defer to the designers here. > > (Sorry if this sounds like a cop out. It's not. I agree this is an > important thing.) No problem, GNOME is driven by design. Fred _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list