Re: Remove "About Me" for 3.0?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:24 +0100, Hylke Bons wrote:
> I think we have to ask ourselves the question of what we want About Me
> to be, in the context of GNOME 3 and the new shell.
> I think About Me should be a collection of user info / change password
> and maybe your web accounts for IM and Twitter and the like.
> User management is something entirely different. About Me didn't work
> for GNOME 3 because your identity didn't really play a big role on the
> desktop. It may do so more in gnome-shell.

The code in gnome-about-me is absolutely dreadful.

MacOS X also puts together user account management along with setting up
one's own details.

I don't think that moving away from gnome-about-me precludes us from
adding support for social web accounts.

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As promised I'm reviewing the extensible-shell branch and looking at
> > what needs doing before it is merged into master. Currently there is no
> > support for the "About Me" capplet. A while back it was suggested¹ that
> > "About Me" might be replaced by the new users dialog from RedHat².
> >
> > Does anyone object to removing "About Me" now an accepting the new
> > accounts dialog as the replacement?
> >
> > Matthias: would you be happy with the new accounts dialog moving to the
> > control center repository once the extensible-shell branch as been
> > merged into master?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > ¹ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2010-February/msg00023.html
> > ² https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog
> >
> >
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