Re: Online Accounts panel for 3.2

[David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com>]

Hey Alberto,

Thanks for your response!

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alberto Mardegan
<mardy users sourceforge net> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 04/19/2011 04:08 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> One of the things I'm looking at doing for 3.2 is the Web Accounts panel:
>>
>>  http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Sharing
>
> See the "Current status" section in that page. We already have all of this
> (and more) in MeeGo, and I'm willing to support any efforts in bringing this
> to Gnome.

I did briefly look at http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso/accounts-glib
but quickly got lost as that appears to be just the client-side GLib
glue. And some of the other stuff looked pretty specific to Meego.

>> There are of course security / implementation considerations
>> (password/auth token hygiene, should we treat the desktop like it's
>> not a single security context when it really is?) here - all of that
>> comes next.
>
> We addressed all security concerns already; feel free to ask in case you
> have some doubts.

Oh, it's not so much that I had any unresolved concerns - I was just
pointing out that I was aware that I knew that I have to be careful
there.

> I'm sure that especially for the SSO part there'll be need for work in order
> to adapt it to the desktop; but it will still be far quicker than rewriting
> everything. The accounts part should be already well working on the desktop.

Can you give a short overview of exactly what components that you've
written that GNOME would use (including their dependencies and whether
it's a per-session daemon, per-system daemon or shared library), what
GNOME would need to write itself and how it would fit together with
the UX that I've described? I mean, obviously accounts-glib would be
an external dep and obviously we'd write our own GNOME Control Center
panel ... but what else? I'm asking mostly to figure out what
additional dependencies this would add to GNOME if we were to use it!

Thanks,
David