[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

Is there any progress on this? Even after grant access twice I can not access google contacts in Evolution (16.04, 16.10). How does it work actually? I have to install and use gnome-control-center to make it work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

When an app wants to use an account, it first needs to be authorized by the user. This is an offline operation, which happens locally on the user's device. It's handled by dialogs in the second column of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OnlineAccounts?action=AttachFile=get

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

Specification updated with a new flow diagram. I'm not sure I have it right yet, though. What if you set up two accounts of the same type, but you want an app to be authorized for only one of them? For example, if you add personal and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

Here's a rough draft of the dialog and adjusted flow: the "PC version" dialog is the one relevant to Unity 7. Focus stealing prevention isn't quite as reliable in Compiz as it is in other OSes, but yes, we do have it. Sam Spilsbury has written a summary of how it works.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

So bug 1507540 is basically the Ubuntu Touch equivalent of this bug? At least, it's unlikely that the design for that particular case will be different from the general design for (re)authorization. Anyway, for the reasons I gave, I think it would be risky (and even aggravating) to present this

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

On 12.01.2016 17:16, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: [...] > fixing the problem directly. You make a good point that it's often going > to be an app/service that isn't the focused app. But we have a long- > standing mechanism for dealing with dialogs that don't belong to the > focused app:

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

On 04.01.2016 20:59, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > "the first time that these processes start using the newly created > account, they need to be authorized by the user: this is not something > that we can control, as it's a requirement from the remote server" > > Is this true on the phone as well?

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522360] Re: Online Accounts authorization on desktop (unity7) is confusing

"the first time that these processes start using the newly created account, they need to be authorized by the user: this is not something that we can control, as it's a requirement from the remote server" Is this true on the phone as well? If not, how does the phone avoid this? And if so, the