Re: login and google accounts

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Talked to Bryan about how to do this. 
Overall I hope we can keep this unobtrusive because it's somewhat of a 
backwards-compatibility issue for people trying to transition from 
existing accounts; if you log in from a Live CD or whatever things 
should work as expected for now.  Though we do need to do the 
weblogindriver dialog asking what you want to do.
> Our thought is to have a Google
> Accounts dialog. It will basically have fields for username and
> password for a "regular" google account, and username, password, and
> "url" for a AFYD account.
>
>   
One thought is to treat GAFYD as something that will generally be set up 
by a system administrator and possibly not even have it in the UI.  
Would probably make things significantly cleaner from a 
visual/interaction flow (no dangling GAFYD login box if you have no idea 
what GAFYD is).
> I guess an open question is how you open the dialog when you have one
> working account already and just want to add a second one. "A button
> somewhere"
>   
Are you talking about multiple Google accounts (i.e. people with two 
GMail accounts), or just Google + GAFYD?

> Another open question is how/whether this is synced with e.g. a GTalk
> IM client. One possible answer is to just share the gconf and
> gnome-keyring keys, and possibly the python module that includes
> prefilling from data model and login driver, with both BigBoard and
> anyone else that wants to use it. Another possibility is to add this
> stuff to web-login-driver rather than bigboard. Not sure.
>   

The main technical limit with using gnome-keyring as the password store 
between multiple applications is there's no notification of changes.  
Maybe we could work around this by pairing each with a GConf key and 
saying apps have to listen to the corresponding GConf key.  The other 
gnome-keyring issues like "Allow or Deny?" are generic upstream bugs.