Re: Initial Thoughts

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 11:58 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 11/26/2010 03:56 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Saying that "we don't need it in the core desktop because web apps
> > change too often" is a cop-out, or a way to say that you prefer gwibber.
> > If/when the web accounts is implemented, Ryan Paul is more than welcome
> > 1) making Gwibber use the system-wide accounts 2) implement the missing
> > features in the parts of the stack to be able to make Gwibber work as
> > expected. After that, it's up to him whether Gwibber is just a GTK+ app,
> > or a GNOME one.
> I would say it's a GNOME app regardless if it makes use of the central 
> account store or not, but that's another discussion for another day. :)
> 
> Do you mean that Gwibber should retire it's own account settings window 
> in favor of control centers account one?
> I think that could make sense for Empathy, that is more of a core app, 
> but for a 3rd party one, that's a tough requirement, and makes it harder 
> in the cases where you would like to, say port your app to other 
> platforms in order to lure them to Linux, or work well under KDE.
> A good alternative would be for the app to have it's own account stuff, 
> but a possibility (soft dep?) to make use of the systems central account 
> setup thing.

You're talking implementation details, when I'm talking about design :)