Can some admin please remove the packages from -proposed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to account-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565772
Title: [SRU] Allow plugins to decide which username to set on new accounts Status in Online Accounts: Account plugins: Fix Released Status in Canonical System Image: Fix Released Status in Online Accounts: GNOME Control Center: Fix Released Status in webapps-sprint: Fix Committed Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-control-center-signon package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in account-plugins source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in gnome-control-center-signon source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in account-plugins source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Status in gnome-control-center-signon source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Bug description: This bug is related to bug 1547647, even though it makes sense in any case. Currently, the ApOAuthPlugin class in libaccount-plugin gets the username from the SignonIdentity, which in turn gets it from signon- ui, which in the current WebKit1 implementation gets it from the DOM of the login webpage. This is a hack, it's fragile, not trivial to port to the Oxide web engine, and possibly against some providers' guidelines. We should retrieve the username using some REST API provided by the service, and in order to do so we need to extend libaccounts-plugin with some hooks which subclasses can use to get the username. Once we fix this we can also get rid of the files /etc/signon-ui /webkit-options.d/, which are conflicting with those installed by the KDE account plugins packages. SRU information =============== [Impact] The same file /etc/signon-ui/webkit- options.d/www.facebook.com.conf is installed by the account-plugin- facebook package (used by Unity) and by kaccount-providers (used by KDE). See this bug's duplicates to see actual bug reports. [Test Case] Install both account-plugin-facebook and kaccount- providers and you'll get the conflict. [Regression Potential] Users running KDE will be completely unaffected by this. Users running Unity might see a change when creating accounts in System Settings->Online Accounts: with this bugfix, the account's display name is obtained by making a REST API call to the remote service, rather than by scrapping the DOM of the server webpages (which is a hack, and prone to errors if the providers' webpage changes). The new way of retrieving the username is the proper one, and it's been tested to work reliably. In any case, the worst thing that might happen is that accounts get created with an empty display name, which is mostly an aesthetic problem (the display name is used only for UI purposes). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/account-plugins/+bug/1565772/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
