Re: gnome-about-me

[Albert Mora <jarashi telefonica net>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:29 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:26 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:21 +0200, Diego Gonzalez wrote:
> > 
> > Also dont' forget that Evolution has some (all) of this information, so
> > your app could also just be an additional simple front-end to e-d-s.
> > Especially if e-d-s already has (or will have) hooks for updating the
> > system user information.
> > 
> > > Other stuff: should i include information about the address, email and
> > > im accounts of the user? should the user be able to change information
> > > about its address? if the installation is a "home based" one then the
> > > information related to the address will be kept in gconf, but if the
> > > installation is an enterprise one probably the address related stuff
> > > should be modified in an LDAP server or something like that.
> > 
> > Use e-d-s for that sort of stuff.  It's all stored there in GNOME 2.8+.
> 
> EDS also has the beginnings of a "self" API for marking and retrieving
> yourself, but it currently has no UI.
> 

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albert...