I never found GOA useful.
Endorsement of Google should have no place in GNOME, and I'm surprised
that there was no uproar about the inclusion of support and suggestion
for such accounts in a default component of what is supposed to be a
GNU-endorsed desktop environment. Forget GOA privacy issues- the
accounts it suggests
I honestly don't even know what it does.
Even when I didn't care/know about free software and privacy, I didn't find
GOA very useful either...
Hello everybody,
To people like Stallman, freedom is not only free software but software that
respect or ensure your privacy. I think he rightly called Ubuntu Amazon stuff
(is it scope?) spyware.
I watched a presentation by the main dev of GOA but he didn't address the
question of
Quite, and I wouldn't either.
Yet perhaps most GNU/Linux users unfortunately use GMail at least, and
probably other Google services. So GNOME caters for the majority of users.
Those who think it's bad are a handful.
BTW, Mono applications seem to have quietly left GNOME in the recent years,
free software yet under the thumb of M$ which I think Stallman was right to
guard developers against. LinuxMint LMDE has a lot of Mono stuff and
libraries but GNOME on Debian seems to be free from them, according to
As I understand it, GOA connects you directly to various accounts, whether
it's FB or Jabber.
GOA provides a centralized service that allows a set of online accounts to be
configured for use with core GNOME applications. In UX terms, GOA provides a
static list of online accounts that can
GNOME Online Accounts is a default application included in GNOME which
users can set up a number of supported accounts with to integrate them
with other GNOME programs. The practical benefits of this I'm not sure
of, and when I used Debian with GNOME I never used it. My problem with
it is that it
