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Hi Jorge,

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 02:37, Jorge O. Castro <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have an upstream working on an application, he wants to add an
> account dialog to his application, this is what he came up with:
> http://i.imgur.com/9vFZF.png
>
> So at first glance I thought "That doesn't look right". Here's
> gwibber's account dialog: http://i.imgur.com/e504n.png
>
> Gwibber's is based on Empathy. Ken decided that it was important for
> the Gwibber account manager to operate as a separate application
> outside of Gwibber itself. While he was reimplementing it, he took the
> opportunity to streamline it and change the design to make it more
> consistent with the account dialog that Empathy had at the time.
> (Because hey, why not, make them behave the same!) Here's a separate
> design that Ryan had come up with (just to put it out here):
>
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/191324/gwibber-home-screenpng
>
> >From playing with both the empathy and gwibber dialogs they seem
> similar enough for most people to not care -- though there are some
> small inconsistencies that should be fixed. Evolution is different, as
> well as other apps. Searching through the GNOME wiki and HIG doesn't
> seem to give me any answers. Has anyone out there done research into
> this topic? Is there supposed to be an example application where can I
> point upstream application authors to emulate when it comes to adding
> account information? Is anyone aware of GNOME handling what app
> authors should do? I'd be more than happy to take the conversation
> upstream if that's where it should be.
>

Luke started a thread a while ago.. he addressed the User Accounts dialog,
but this is a beautiful solution that can also work for many other types of
account setup wizards etc..


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:10, Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> >         the 'about me' and 'users and groups' will be replaced by User
> >         accounts
> >         diagloue in maverick.
>
> You mean the User Accounts dialog [1] that has been developed by Fedora?
>
> This is going to be part of GNOME 3.0 (I think).
>
> Allan
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog



i think this is the most reasonable thing to look at for now, if one is
looking for a good design to model an accounts dialog after..