Fixed in Ubuntu Q. "Online Accounts" is now in the system menu only when
an account has had an authentication failure. And that panel is also
used for setting up accounts in Empathy.
** Changed in: indicator-session
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834830
Title:
User accounts experience fragmented
Status in Ayatana Design:
Fix Released
Status in GNOME Control Center:
New
Status in The Session Menu:
Fix Released
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
New
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.
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