On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 21:22 +0100, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 10/08/2010 12:03 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 08:28 +0100, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > >> On 10/07/2010 02:09 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote: > >>> * Define "Google" account. Done by writing a > >>> accounts-provider-plugin. Where is that API defined? How is such > >>> a plugin installed? Is there an example? > >> > >> The API is defined in libaccounts-ui, which is still stuck in the Nokia > >> internal > >> legal processes to be open-sourced, we are all waiting. :-/ > > > > So we have Accounts&SSO in MeeGo 1.1, but we cannot use it? That can't > > have been the intention. Please confirm and I'll escalate this :-/ > > No, it's not exactly like that. The accounts API are perfectly usable > without libaccounts-ui; this library (which for the time being is > missing from MeeGo) is helpful to write account provider and service > plugins and to load them.
Okay, but for what purpose? The system is incomplete without the UI that these plugins hook into. The plugins would never get called and therefore also cannot be tested in a realistic situation. > Still, if you want to escalate the issue of having libaccounts-ui > available, you have all my support, because I think it's worth it and it > should be in Nokia interest that MeeGo doesn't take a totally different > approach for the accounts UI. Agreed. -- Best Regards Patrick Ohly Senior Software Engineer Intel GmbH Open Source Technology Center Pützstr. 5 Phone: +49-228-2493652 53129 Bonn Germany _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
