On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:24 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Making delete-account elaborate would be optimizing a rare operation, > IMHO. How often do users create / delete mail accounts? Hopefully that > is very uncommon. GNOME-Online-Accounts specifically automates that, > so if you use GOA there isn't much need at all to define custom accounts > [except that GOA, itself, may not be very easily extensible; it appears > the only way to implement/publish a service is GOA is by writing C...]
GNOME Online Accounts is also an opt-in service for any application that wants to participate. So I always assume, for example, Thunderbird will soon have a GOA add-on. Imagine having Evolution and Thunderbird open side by side, each with an identical account linked to the same GOA account, and each programmed to react instantly to changes broadcast from the GOA service. If I were to delete the GOA-linked account through Evolution, would I be surprised to see the account also vanish from Thunderbird? I think such behavior could be extremely alarming if you're not aware of the inter-application linkage behind the scenes. Therefore, I disallow deleting GOA-linked accounts through Evolution, and defer to the Online Accounts panel in System Settings. Seeing a mail account vanish from multiple apps when deleting through the Online Accounts panel is less surprising. I have talked to Debarshi Ray (GOA maintainer) about providing a way for applications to open System Settings to a particular panel and item. If and when such a mechanism is provided, I'll add an "Open Online Account" button to Evolution to be shown when a GOA-linked account is selected. Matthew Barnes _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
