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[Daniel Fore <daniel.p.fore@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think we should ever built contracts into the contractor package.
We should always have the choice to remove services (read: packages) that
we may not want.

Gwibber may not be an option, but what about Polly? For things like
Facebook, G+, or U1 I think they should be their own separate packages not
forced in.

As for configuring online accounts, there is already such a thing ;) I'm
not sure how flexible GNOME Online Accounts is, but that's something to
look into for sure.

I really want to avoid a situation though where we have a bunch of crap
installed that you have to go around turning off just to get a clean
desktop.

Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

http://www.elementaryos.org



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Matthew Markell <markellmtthw@xxxxxxx>wrote:

>  This sounds like a really good idea Cassidy. Here's a blueprint I wrote
> some time ago that talks about setting up a separate project for web
> services contracts:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/web-contracts
>
> Hopefully this can be implemented rather quickly and be shipped with Luna.
>
> Matthew Markell
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> On 02/17/2012 01:13 AM, Cassidy James wrote:
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> Oh, also, if we have those imagebin and other contracts, it'd be great to
> get them packaged up to get tested.
> On Feb 17, 2012 1:07 AM, "Cassidy James" <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I was looking at some of the OS X Mountain Lion announcement stuff and
>> noticed they were really pushing the fact that Twitter was integrated into
>> their OS. It got me thinking; most social networks have a pretty simple
>> API... why can't we add them into elementary in the form of Contracts for
>> Contractor?
>>
>> We can, and in my opinion, should. While we could rely on an app like
>> Gwibber to handle all the social networking, why not just bake it in and
>> make it even more seamless? At this point I'm not even sure that Gwibber
>> could be set up to handle contracts without upstream patches.
>>
>> We could even have a Sharing plug in Switchboard to handle the
>> authentication and switching on or off of services.
>>
>> Let me know what you think, if there are any drawbacks, and if you want
>> to work on it. ;)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cassidy James
>>
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