Re: GNOME Online Accounts extensibility

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On jue, 2011-10-06 at 14:30 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> Sorry, not trying to sound harsh here but I couldn't find a better way
> to say this.  
> 
> Basically you are saying that GOA isn't really an open technology to
> help consolidate user's online accounts, it is only to help consolidate
> accounts for blessed GNOME apps?  This doesn't really help users in the
> big picture, but I guess the design team makes those decisions.
> 
GOA already has support for Twitter and Facebook accounts, they are just
disabled in the build by default because of the legal issues David
mentions.

In fact, I asked about enabling them by default recently, and David
explained the distributing-the-keys problem, which needs to be solved.
So, there's nothing to do with designers, it's just a legal issue.

Out of curiosity, what keys does gwibber use? does it distribute them?