Re: Initial Thoughts

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

On 11/26/2010 03:56 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Saying that "we don't need it in the core desktop because web apps
> change too often" is a cop-out, or a way to say that you prefer gwibber.
> If/when the web accounts is implemented, Ryan Paul is more than welcome
> 1) making Gwibber use the system-wide accounts 2) implement the missing
> features in the parts of the stack to be able to make Gwibber work as
> expected. After that, it's up to him whether Gwibber is just a GTK+ app,
> or a GNOME one.
I would say it's a GNOME app regardless if it makes use of the central 
account store or not, but that's another discussion for another day. :)

Do you mean that Gwibber should retire it's own account settings window 
in favor of control centers account one?
I think that could make sense for Empathy, that is more of a core app, 
but for a 3rd party one, that's a tough requirement, and makes it harder 
in the cases where you would like to, say port your app to other 
platforms in order to lure them to Linux, or work well under KDE.
A good alternative would be for the app to have it's own account stuff, 
but a possibility (soft dep?) to make use of the systems central account 
setup thing.
- Andreas