Re: What I can do with Online Desktop at this moment?

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
> About this I have a question, where the Gmail account is stored?
>
> For example for each loved accounts there are four properties stored:
> iconURL, link, sentiment and accountType.
>
> If an application uses an external web service like Gmail, it needs to
> store at least: link and user.
> This information is stored in any place at this moment?
>
> I see that Big Board stores this information at GConf
> below /apps/bigboard/accounts/, however I don't know if this is the
> suitable place.
> I think that could be that it gets this information from any resource at
> online.gnome.org, it's only an idea I don't know which is the right way.
Hi!

You can find the logic for getting GMail accounts in 
bigboard/bigboard/accounts.py In particular, you can see a request to 
the data model for "googleEnabledEmails" and how we process the response.

Google accounts are provided by online.gnome.org (you can see that 
get_provided_by_server() is True for KIND_GOOGLE account kind). In the 
future, we'll have other accounts that might not necessarily be provided 
by online.gnome.org. All accounts are stored locally in the GConf, under 
/apps/bigboard/accounts/, just as you pointed out. In the case with 
Google accounts, GConf will only have the accounts that were obtained 
from online.gnome.org. It is possible to disable an account locally, and 
that setting is stored locally in the GConf, and synced across different 
instances of Online Desktop due to the GConf sync. The password is 
stored locally in the GNOME Keyring.

Google enabled e-mails can include e-mails that are supported by Google 
Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD). Currently, the Google Calendar widget and 
the e-mail notifier are supposed to work for multiple accounts, 
including GAFYD ones (though this hasn't been tested for a while), but 
the Google Mail widget doesn't -- it only supports one Gmail account. 
The user can indicate which e-mails are supported by Google in the 
"Google Services" section of their online.gnome.org account page. GMail 
e-mails are automatically marked as such. If you want to write an 
application or a widget that uses Google accounts, you should decide if 
it's going to support multiple accounts and if it's going to support 
GAFYD accounts (this is not very hard). Of course just supporting one 
GMail account is a start too :).

Marina