On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Martin Klapetek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, > > here's the current status of KAccounts and the future plans. > > KAccounts itself is pretty much ready to roll. It's waiting for a release > because there was a slight screw up in the translations, but will be > released shortly (basically just entering string freeze so ~2 weeks). > So will it be released with 2014.12? I think that's great news! > > One unresolved thing for now is KAccounts provider files for > telepathy-haze accounts. Basically each account in KAccounts requires a > provider file with basic description (eg. Jabber) and a service file which > lists the available services (eg. Chat). In KTp we have fake profiles for > haze so they magically appear in the current kcm, for KAccounts we cannot > have fake provider files, so provider and service files need to be created > for all haze supported accounts. I plan to put this in ktp-accounts-kcm and > install it together with the other data. > > In order to have KTp using KAccounts, three patches need to get in (please > review the last two): > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119955/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120521/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120215/ > > Once all three all ship it'd, I'll merge all three at once. That will > effectively require you to have the following present: > libaccounts-glib > libaccounts-qt > signond > kde:signon-kwallet-extension > signon-plugin-oauth2 > lp:signon-ui > kde:kaccounts-providers > kde:kaccounts-integration > > Details for setting all up at http://bit.ly/1xEpylg > > Migration - automated migration will not be possible for all accounts, > like Google and Facebook, because currently we're using the password based > authentication, but KAccounts for Google and Facebook uses/needs OAuth > authentication, so it cannot just be migrated directly. As for other > accounts, I'm not sure if it's possible to get into kde4 kwallet data from > KF5, anyone knows? For regular jabber accounts and some other haze ones I > think a simple migration agent recreating the accounts in KAccounts could > be part of the KAccounts daemon. Another question is history logs > migration, I think this will be quite wanted feature. I /think/ that by > simple recreating the account in Telepathy the logs will remain (as the > accounts have the same id), can someone confirm? > > I'd like to get this in asap as frameworks ports are appearing and this > critical new piece of the infrastructure should get a lot of testing before > KTp on frameworks is released. > I'd like that too, I'll go through the reviews, but I fear the biggest problem will be that none of us is really experienced in the *Accounts world. I'm convinced it will be a good new technology to rely on, though. Cheers! Aleix
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