Ubuntu is fixing this in Quantal with the ubuntu-online-accounts project
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Title:
Online Accounts capplet has no
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 834830 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834830
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 834830
User accounts experience fragmented
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Ok, adding an upstream component because upstream could do a better job
at hinting on what the dialog is for and what the user needs to do
** Also affects: gnome-control-center
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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If Ubuntu is going to switch to Thunderbird as the default mail client
in Oneiric, I think we either need to remove the Online Accounts
capplet, or include the necessary infrastructure to allow Thunderbird to
link to Google contacts and calendars. Otherwise, it just appears broken
when a user adds
Thanks for the response, Seb. I guess the real bug here then is in
populating the dialog box to be more intuitive that an account needs to
be added.
I think this uncovers a design issue in Ubuntu. We now have three
different ways of configuring user accounts:
* Messaging and VoIP Accounts -
You can add ubuntuone-control-panel to the list as well
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Title:
Online Accounts capplet has no accounts listed
thanks, that's just what the GNOME guys did this cycle, it let you
configure google account and let evolution, empathy etc use those for
email, contacts, calendar. They don't support any non google account
type for 3.2
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Attachment added: onlineaccounts.jpg
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833441/+attachment/2310752/+files/onlineaccounts.jpg
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