Re: GNOME Online Accounts 3.34 won't have documents support

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2019-01-21 at 10:32 -0600, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:14 AM, Christopher Davis via 
> desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi Rishi,
> >
> > Cloud documents is an important part of where I want to move
> > forward 
> > with the application,
> > so Online Accounts integration would still be critical.
> >
> > A file previewer is definitely a priority, and an editor could be 
> > considered.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chris
>
> We have a rule though: the account types exposed in 
> gnome-online-accounts must be used by at least one core application. 
> It's a good rule because it doesn't make sense to have settings in 
> control-center for apps that aren't installed by default. So unless
> we 
> reverse course and add gnome-documents back to core, the documents 
> account configuration settings should move from control-center to 
> gnome-documents itself.

That would mean making the application not able to use a single facet
of an account that's otherwise already setup (because there are 6 other
toggles for Google accounts for example), and require the application
to reimplement all the login procedure, re-authentication, etc.