** Changed in: ayatana-design Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834830
Title: User accounts experience fragmented Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in GNOME Control Center: New Status in The Session Menu: Triaged Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Today we have a problem in how different user accounts are presented in Ubuntu. For a typical user they will need to configure the following accounts: * System (e.g. login accounts). * Email (e.g. Gmail IMAP in Thunderbird). * IM (e.g. MSN, Facebook etc in Empathy). * Broadcast (e.g. Twitter in Gwibber). Today we expose the following places to configure these accounts in the System Settings: * Online Accounts - a limited functionality means of configuring global accounts for Evolution/Empathy (only Google supported). * Messaging and VoIP Accounts - Empathy IM and VoIP accounts. * User Accounts - system accounts (e.g. your login accounts). We don't expose Broadcast Accounts for Gwibber and Email Accounts for Thunderbird in System Settings; they are configured in the app. This bug has two issues: 1. The current way in which we present the existing tools is confusing (e.g. the Me Menu shows Online Accounts and User Accounts and neither is clear which configures what). Also, Online Accounts presumes you can set up accounts such as Twitter and Email, but it doesn't serve that purpose. 2. From a design perspective, this functionality is scattered all over the system - we should have a single integrated configuration tool, or alternatively, a consistent in-app means of configuring these services. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/834830/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
