Hi, On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <pat...@pld-linux.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:40 PM, David Zeuthen <zeut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I. Adding support for a provider P, currently means making code-changes to >> all of the GNOME apps using its services.. because most of the time >> standard >> standardized protocols are not in use. For the few cases where it >> uses a standard >> protocol (such as XMPP and IMAP/SMTP) we could support pluggable >> providers. >> >> For example, we could, presumably, read "plug-in" files from some >> directory >> so we could list 200 different XMPP chat services or 200 different >> IMAP servers. >> That that no-one ever heard about. But would we want the user to >> see this? The >> answer is: not in GOA. > > Can't we just have an option that says "Other Jabber/XMPP provider" > and allows me to enter my JID, the server name, password, port etc.? > It would cover most of people's needs even if they need to ask the > provider for details (that they have to provide anyway). Most > importantly it would mean not using two configuration windows, one of > which not showing anything other than Google and the other saying that > some accounts "could not be configured here". The current state of > affairs leads to confusion (I had to explain that to a live person, I > failed because I did not have any sensible arguments). > > Same could probably be done for IMAP/POP3/SMTP.
And also for calendar since there's a couple of standardized protocols. FWIW, I don't think it's a bad idea and I actually did something like this early on, see http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gen-mail-1.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gen-mail-2.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gen-mail-3.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gen-mail-4.png but IIRC the designers had some objections and I ended up running out of time. I'll try to grab the designers again. Would you mind filing a bug about it? Thanks! David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list