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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 11:54 -0600, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:03 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
> wrote:
> > It is what is happening in GNOME Online Accounts in general. Pocket
> > is
> > disabled in Fedora 29, and there's a good chance that the mail
> > configuration bits will be disabled in Fedora 30.
> >
> > I don't know whether those changes will also be done upstream, but
> > the
> > result will be the same, it won't be possible for applications
> > shipped
> > through Flatpak to know that certain configuration options will be
> > available in GNOME Online Accounts.
>
> Thing is, we don't have any email apps in core. It just doesn't make 
> sense to have email settings in gnome-online-accounts when none of
> the 
> core apps (the apps installed by default) actually use those
> settings. 
> It's just going to confuse users with settings that don't do
> anything.

And those upgrading will lose those mail accounts, right?

> I don't really have strong opinions on the future of 
> gnome-online-accounts, but unless there are major design changes
> along 
> the lines that have been suggested in this thread, then yes, I would 
> certainly advise against using it outside of the core apps.