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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Allan,

The mockup seems to imply that one may only have one account of a particular
type, eg. only one Google account, or one AOL account.  Is this limitation
going to be present in the implementation, or have I misinterpreted the
mockup?

Thanks,

Sohail Mirza


On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 15:42 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sort of thread hijacking a little here (apologies for that), but
> > this is actually close to something I've been meaning to bring up here
> > for a while.
> >
> > On my phone, when I set it up for the first time I was asked if I want
> > to set up certain accounts (e.g. flickr, Facebook, Twitter etc.) and
> > by doing so I unlocked features (e.g. downloading contact pictures,
> > uploading pictures to flickr etc.).
> >
> > What with Ubuntu becoming "social" I'm wondering if we should be doing
> > something similar, a sort of online account manager which manages the
> > accounts across the desktop.
> >
> > Here's my thinking, imagine the first time you login to Ubuntu you are
> > provided with an account setup wizard that allows you to register
> > accounts for different purposes. For example:
> >
> > * Imgur, Flickr, ImageShack, Picasa TwitPic, FB* (image hosting
> > services)
> > * Twitter, Facebook*, Identica, Google Buzz (social networking)
> > * Ubuntu One, Dropbox (file hosting services)
> > * Google Talk, MSN, Jabber (IM services)
> > * Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo (email services)
> >
> > Adding each of these would add them to the appropriate application
> > (e.g Gwibber, Evolution, Empathy) but would also unlock features (e.g.
> > Right clicking and image in Nautilus might have a "Share on Flickr"
> > option).
> >
> > I think some kind of global account system, with an API would allow us
> > to code some really cool stuff into the desktop. So, as a concrete
> > example, Shotwell might be able to query for a list of available image
> > hosting services that the user has accounts for, and provide an
> > "Upload to..." option.
> >
> > I'm also thinking that the account manager itself could use a
> > extension system for the accounts, so installing packages like
> > account-manager-flickr would add it to the account manager... or
> > something like that.
> >
> > Anyway, sorry to take this slightly OT, just thought I'd throw this
> > out there,
> >
> > Luke.
>
> I totally agree about the desirability of this feature. Which is why I'm
> glad that it's being worked on for GNOME 3.0. :) Initial mockups can be
> found in the GNOME design repository [1].
>
> Feel free to drop by #gnome-design (irc.gnome.org) if you'd like to
> discuss this with the designers.
>
> Best,
>
> Allan
>
> [1]
>
> http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/control%20center/web-services/web-services.png
>
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