Re: Off For a Few Days (and TODO list)

[Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 14:05 +0200, Thomas Van Machelen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2007/7/18, John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>:
> > 3) Web dataprovider login issues.
> > Currently an article on conduit is being written for Linux Magazine. The
> > author has found none of the online web services work when using firefox to
> > authenticate. In addition Ken has mentioned that gnome-www-open is a
> > debianism and is not really portable. Also the GUI freezes when we
> > authenticate. The long answer is boring, the short answer is use of
> > gnome-www-open should die. We should use gnome-open instead.
> >
> 
> If no work has been on this yet, I'm willing to devote some time on
> this one when my internet connection is back up at home; because i'm
> partly responsible for the gnome-www-open stuff that's in trunk atm.
> ;-)
> 

In attachment you can a first version of the patch to get rid of
gnome-www-open, using the approach John described.  It needs some more
cleanup, and the addition of the 'authenticating' signal; but the
important thing is, you can now use your default browser to perform web
authentication.

Regards,
Thomas.