Re: Remove "About Me" for 3.0?

[Hylke Bons <hylkebons gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:24 +0100, Hylke Bons wrote:
>> I think we have to ask ourselves the question of what we want About Me
>> to be, in the context of GNOME 3 and the new shell.
>> I think About Me should be a collection of user info / change password
>> and maybe your web accounts for IM and Twitter and the like.
>> User management is something entirely different. About Me didn't work
>> for GNOME 3 because your identity didn't really play a big role on the
>> desktop. It may do so more in gnome-shell.
>
> The code in gnome-about-me is absolutely dreadful.

I'll take your word for that, cna't judge myself :)

>
> MacOS X also puts together user account management along with setting up
> one's own details.

Doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

>
> I don't think that moving away from gnome-about-me precludes us from
> adding support for social web accounts.

Question is, does dropping about-me and adding the new users tool
justify naming the users tool 'about me'.

Hylke