Re: Remove "About Me" for 3.0?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:19 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:14 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As promised I'm reviewing the extensible-shell branch and looking at
> > what needs doing before it is merged into master. Currently there is no
> > support for the "About Me" capplet. A while back it was suggested¹ that
> > "About Me" might be replaced by the new users dialog from RedHat².
> 
> It's "Red Hat", not "RedHat" or "Redhat".
> 
> > Does anyone object to removing "About Me" now an accepting the new
> > accounts dialog as the replacement?
> > 
> > Matthias: would you be happy with the new accounts dialog moving to the
> > control center repository once the extensible-shell branch as been
> > merged into master?
> 
> Why can't the dialogue stay in its own module? Are the necessary headers
> and libraries not exported for other modules to use? Or do you expect to
> ship all the preferences ever inside gnomecc?
> 
> (Note that this isn't a theoretical problem, it's one I would have for
> gnome-media's gnome-volume-control, gnome-bluetooth and
> gnome-user-share)
> 
> The new accounts dialogue doesn't work on non-Linux systems, and
> probably does not work well on non-Fedora systems (although we're
> waiting on people actually trying it there).
> 
hmm, if it doesn't work on non-Linux systems, I guess we need to have
something for non-Linux users. I agree about gnome-about-me code being
dreadful, so what should we do? What would be needed for the new
accounts dialog to work on non-Linux systems?