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[Abhishek K <abhihello@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 April 2012 12:29 AM, Nekhelesh wrote:
> On Tue 10 Apr 2012 06:26:56 AM CEST, Abhishek K wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> This has probably been discussed already, but could not find any info
>> related to this.
>>
>> In 11.10, Gnome's Online Accounts setting was present in the "System
>> Settings" dialog. However, so far, I do not see that setting in the
>> 12.04 System Settings. Is this a conscious decision or is it a bug which
>> needs to be reported?
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Abhishek
>>
>
> @Abhishek,
>
> This is a design decision to hide the online accounts while using
> Unity since there are no applications which make use of the
> functionality. I believe only Empathy uses the online accounts
> integration to setup accounts. But otherwise thunderbird does not make
> sure of this feature. Also Gnome Documents, Contacts is not installed
> by default in Precise.
> Hence it was decided to hide it.
>
> Nekhelesh
Thanks Nekhelesh. That makes sense.