Hi, On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Steve Frécinaux <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/06/2011 07:40 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: >> >> II. To avoid user confusion we only want the major online services in GOA. >> Support for more specialized protocols/services should happen in each >> separate app - that's why, for example, that Empathy still has a >> preferences >> menu so you can add support for e.g. ICQ, Zephyr and other fringe chat >> services and protocols. And that's also why you still have support in >> Evolution for manually adding IMAP/SMTP servers. > > What about free (or not free) services you can install on your own box but > would still provide services for many different programs? > > I'm thinking about owncloud, for instance, which provides document storage, > calendar, bookmarks, etc. > > Sure this is not a "well known" service, but yet I think many would like to > be able to add such services, due to our natural love of freedom and not > promoting big companies without alternatives.
I agree it would be nice if the free software community could come up with a credible alternative to Google, Yahoo or Microsoft's Live to name just three. And I definitely think if such a credible alternative were to surface we should definitely support it in GNOME along the same lines of the non-free ones, perhaps even giving it special treatment because its free. Whether OwnCloud specifically is this project remains to be seen - but see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660573 for the request to add OwnCloud support to GOA (the reason I haven't replied to that bug yet is that I want to get the guidelines I gave upthread into the goa docs). David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
