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

[Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:32 -0700, John Stowers wrote:
> Unfortunately I cant reply as I am at the airport about to get on a
> flight back to NZ. This is exactly how I would have done it.
> 
> If it passes all the tests and works for you then go ahead and commit
> it! Awesome work (remember to remove ~/.flickr first). For the
> authenticating signal, Just do it the simple way ATM, but lets think
> about creating a WebAuthenticator interface (Similar to ImageSink)
> that these dataproviders could derive from. Then we could put the
> Authenticating and the LoginTester in there. 
> 
> Once this is applied to trunk could you test to see if the works on
> foresight please Ken?

I committed the patch to svn; gnome-www-open is no longer used in the
box.net and flickr login procedure.

Regards,
Thomas
> 
> John
> 
> On 7/26/07, Thomas Van Machelen <thomas vanmachelen gmail com> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:14 +0200, Thomas Van Machelen wrote: 
>         > 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.
>         
>         Off course i forget the patch, here it is.  Let me know what
>         you
>         think...
>         
>         >
>         > Regards,
>         > Thomas.
>         
>