Re: 3.2 features: login screen

[David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> B. Not planned, no. This is intended to configure a handful of
>> essential things, not an open-ended list of things you might want to
>> set up if happen to know about them. If twitter-esque web services
>> become supported by 'online accounts', that would make it possible for
>> gwibber to pick up the configuration from there.
>
> I have very mixed feelings about not allowing any customization here,
> especially for web-services where we mostly talk about proprietary web
> services:
>
> a) Who decides which to include? Why would we include Google and
> Facebook but not Bing or UbuntuOne*? This is one of the points Microsoft
> got sued badly by the EU in the past.
>
> * Don't take this examples to literally...

It's just not that simple. I briefly explained the problems here

 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00267.html

TL;DR :

 - The technical problems involve managing N times M times P
   codebases

 - There might be really nasty Terms Of Service issues

 - I expect 3.2 to only support Google, Yahoo providers

 - I expect 3.2 to only support Mail and Calendar services

After 3.2 we can add more providers and more kinds of services. I'm
still working on this.

     David