Re: Enabling About Me by default

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:33 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:19 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:08 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:48 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:07 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm wondering if it's time to enable the "About Me" capplet by default?
> > > > > It works fairly reliably and I think most distributions ship it. Does
> > > > > anyone know of a good reason that it should be disabled by default? 
> > > > 
> > > > We're trying to replace it with the accounts dialogue Matthias is
> > > > working on...
> > > 
> > > If it's a replacement, is there a reason it's not being developed in the
> > > control center module?
> > 
> > Well, it doesn't really replace it, rather supersedes it. It's a
> > configuration tool for accounts (including "yourself") and login
> > options.
> > 
> > Maybe it can be added to the control-center in the future, probably just
> > too early.
> 
> Does it include the same functionality for setting various values on the
> "me" card in EDS?

I don't know. Best you check it out yourself?
http://git.gnome.org/browse/accounts-dialog

Links to the service and some more bits:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog