Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

[Danielle Madeley <danielle madeley collabora co uk>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:02 +1000, Danielle Madeley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 01:27 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > > > #1 -- was this announced/proposed to desktop-devel-list?
> > > 
> > > No, because it was only made for one particular module
> > > (gnome-bluetooth), and by me. The reason we had an external API was so
> > > that gnome-bluetooth code happen in time for 3.0. And we've reverting it
> > > to 3.2.
> > 
> > Empathy has some control-center shell integration as well for its
> > accounts configuration. Or perhaps it's an old version of the API. It
> > was primarily done for Meego Netbook.
> 
> That will hopefully be superseded by the Web Accounts panel David is
> working on.

The last I heard, David's design was only for unifying, single-sign-on
accounts such as Facebook and Google. Things that were pure IM accounts
would still be in a separate capplet.

-- 
Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

www.collabora.co.uk