Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 19:07 +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
> Le mardi 22 mars 2011 à 16:39 +0000, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > This would require somebody writing the "Web Accounts" panel, which
> > would integrate Telepathy accounts, libsocialweb accounts, and
> > possibly
> > Evolution ones too. 
> 
> I think we can have a more modular system if we only set keys of
> GSettings to store informations about accounts and use gnome-keyring to
> store password. No?
> 
> Because if we made a panel only compatible with some applications, it's
> too limited. With GSettings, any applications can be compatible.

If the problem was only stuffing values in GSettings, we'd probably
already have a Web Accounts panel by now. Load up a twitter application
such as Gwibber, and try setting it up to use a Twitter or Facebook
account.

The problem is single sign-on, sharing of application API keys (when
possible), and making sure that the underlying components are set up for
things like OAuth.

See also:
http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso/accounts-glib
in the same problem space.

Cheers