Re: gnome-about-me

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:26 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:21 +0200, Diego Gonzalez wrote:
> 
> Also dont' forget that Evolution has some (all) of this information, so
> your app could also just be an additional simple front-end to e-d-s.
> Especially if e-d-s already has (or will have) hooks for updating the
> system user information.
> 
> > 
> > >From this dialog the gdm face could also by changed.
> > 
> > Other stuff: should i include information about the address, email and
> > im accounts of the user? should the user be able to change information
> > about its address? if the installation is a "home based" one then the
> > information related to the address will be kept in gconf, but if the
> > installation is an enterprise one probably the address related stuff
> > should be modified in an LDAP server or something like that.
> 
> Use e-d-s for that sort of stuff.  It's all stored there in GNOME 2.8+.

EDS also has the beginnings of a "self" API for marking and retrieving
yourself, but it currently has no UI.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.