Re: Online Accounts panel for 3.2

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:08 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
<snip>
> This daemon/library thing, let's call it GOA (Gnome Online Accounts),
> would _not_ be a mechanism to access any of these services. But it
> would provide e.g. libsocialweb, telepathy, e-d-s and so on with
> either the username/password combo or the OAuth token, whatever is
> appropriate.

The hard part here is handling application-authorisation. For example,
for Flickr, it's not enough to have a login/password combo, you also
need to allow the framework/application access to the account.

You'll also see that both libsocialweb and bisho (the "config panel" for
libsocialweb) have quite a lot of that code, including oauth helpers. It
would certainly make sense to split it out of libsocialweb in this case.

Cheers