Re: Instant Message notifications

[David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com>]

Jasper,

This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about "GOA"

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html

That's very, very interesting. One thing caught my eye, though:

> This daemon/library thing, let's call it GOA (Gnome Online Accounts),
> would _not_ be a mechanism to access any of these services. But it
> would provide e.g. libsocialweb, telepathy, e-d-s and so on with
> either the username/password combo or the OAuth token, whatever is
> appropriate.

Does that mean that in order to get, e.g. IM notifications, the user would still have to open Empathy? Because not needing to keep it open was one of the main points of my proposal.