Re: GNOME 3 external dependency proposal (accounts service)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 21:52 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
<snip>
> With my (infanticidal ;-) gnome-system-tools maintainer hat on, I'd just
> like to note that I think the way forward is to use accounts-dialog and
> accounts service instead of users-admin and the system-tools-backends.
> They allow for a better integration with the desktop, e.g. by
> configuring preferred locale and e-mail address; the
> system-tools-backends don't really allow us to do this because of their
> too generic model.
> 
> We still need to do something about the two features that
> accounts-dialog is missing compared to users-admin (password-less login
> and encrypted home directory). But that's definitely +1 for me too,
> since using a single backend and frontend in all distributions will be
> of high benefit.

Not knowing how those work, best would be for you to file bugs, with
information on how to implement them the best we can.

Thanks for your support though :)

Cheers