Re: GNOME Online Accounts extensibility

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On 10/06/2011 07:40 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> II. To avoid user confusion we only want the major online services in GOA.
>      Support for more specialized protocols/services should happen in each
>      separate app - that's why, for example, that Empathy still has a preferences
>      menu so you can add support for e.g. ICQ, Zephyr and other fringe chat
>      services and protocols. And that's also why you still have support in
>      Evolution for manually adding IMAP/SMTP servers.

What about free (or not free) services you can install on your own box 
but would still provide services for many different programs?

I'm thinking about owncloud, for instance, which provides document 
storage, calendar, bookmarks, etc.

Sure this is not a "well known" service, but yet I think many would like 
to be able to add such services, due to our natural love of freedom and 
not promoting big companies without alternatives.