Hello, On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:59 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:12 +0200, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote: > > What more things I can do with Online Desktop at this moment? > > As a user? What you see is pretty much what you get. The features > of online desktop are currently: > > - The bigboard, and the available set of bigboard stocks > (people, files, applications, etc.) I've tested it, but I still haven't a specifically opinion about it. I know its power, but at this moment I don't like it so much. > - The Mugshot stacker application I'd like very much this application to share RSS feeds with my mates. > - GConf sync For me it's an amazing feature, if I'm using Online Desktop at my home and at work, and I have to configure my applications only in one site. Even when I change any configuration preference, I have to do it only in one place. It's great! > So, the work at this point is: > > - Make the existing features better > - Come up with ideas for more features > - Implement them > - Enhance the infrastructure to support that > > All of which we'd love to have more people contributing to. > > > What can Online Desktop provides to my applications now? > > Here are some things that are available to applications through > the the data model right now. > > - The user's name and headshot > - The user's email/aim/XMPP addresses > - The user's account names on services like Flickr, Facebook, etc. > - The user's contacts (on online.gnome.org, and also from their > IM program.), and names/headshots/etc. for those contacts > - The user's currently playing music track > > Some of these things are obviously more useful than others for > applications. Thanks, now I say how I can do it with Online Desktop at this moment. > > > Owen said me that they are working to provide an API to store data > > needed to access to external web services (for example Gmail), but it > > isn't supported yet. > > You can get the Gmail account name already. What isn't there is a > standard way to get the password or prompt for it. We'll probably > eventually provide a Python convenience library for that.... though > the underlying store for the password is something standard to GNOME, > the GNOME keyring. Then I've understood that Online Desktop won't save passwords, this information will be stored on GNOME keyring. In my opinion, it isn't a good idea. As an user I like that if I set my passwords for Gmail in one computer on an Online Desktop session, when I use another computer and I start an Online Desktop session I'd like don't have to put another time my password for Gmail. I know that store passwords can be difficult for privacy problems, however I don't like have to put my password on each computer where I start Online Desktop, I think that Online Desktop should known my passwords. Owen, thank you very much to all your answers, you are very kind. Best regards, Rego PS: sorry to don't send emails directly to mailing list, but I always forget to put online-desktop-list gnome org Mailing list that I'm usually to use response automatically to proper mailing list. -- Manuel Rego Casasnovas Computer Science Engineer mailto:mrego igalia com Tel: +34 986 10 76 10 Fax: +34 981 91 39 49 Igalia - http://www.igalia.com
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