Hi During the development of Ubuntu Karmic, I discussed with some people about having social services accounts (facebook, twitter, etc) configured in one place, about-me specifically. Since it was a bit late for GNOME 2.28, I postponed the discussion, but now that 2.28.0 is almost out, I'd like to start it here.
So, the idea is to have a central place where all those accounts are configured, so that applications using those services (gwibber for now, not sure if there are some others?) can just use that instead of having to ask the user in every application his/her credentials for those social services. So, there are several things to discuss: * is about-me the correct place for this? * should we only provide configuration of social service accounts, or does it make sense to have all web services accounts configured there (social services + flickr + last.fm + IRC + IM + mail + etc etc)? * should about-me (or wherever the code lands) just provide the accounts configuration, or should it also provide access to their protocols (of course, via a separate (dbus) service) so that any app can just use that instead of implementing the protocol itself? I guess the protocol's implementations can live in different places, like Empathy for IM, e-d-s for mail, calendaring, and others, not just in one place, but at least should there be an easy way for apps to access any of them? anything else? _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
