On 18 October 2012 11:58, Ted Gould <t...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > So I think that this is an interesting idea, but I'd propose it a little > differently. If you, for instance said that you have a Google account > we could offer to integrate the GMail website but also offer to set up > IMAP to "Synchronize e-mail locally". > > Perhaps another option would be to use the online accounts dialog to > show which applications are currently using that account, but also which > applications could use that account if they were installed.
GNOME 3.6 introduced an "Initial Setup" feature (gnome-initial-setup). Judging based on screenshots and descriptions, it sounds like it is a parallel to a lot of what we already do in ubiquity. And I really like that Ubuntu asks all the install questions at one time instead of some before install and some after. However a major feature that it has but we don't is setting up Online Accounts. This would be a cool optional step in the installer as it would give the user something to do while installing that would make their computer more useful out of the box. And with that in mind, Ubuntu One really should be part of Online Accounts, so that I don't have to enter my credentials again when I want to use the cool extra stuff in Software Center. And Online Accounts should integrate with my web browser too so I wouldn't have to enter my password separately when I visit launchpad.net (or similar Ubuntu sites) too? (I admit I haven't used the Ubuntu webapps feature very extensively so maybe webapps already works like that.) Jeremy -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop