Wednesday, April 27, 2011

GNOME Online Accounts

The past couple of weeks I've been looking into how to make GNOME work with online accounts. I sent some notes about to d-d-l about this last week. I'm now at a point where I have working code. And with working code, I of course mean a working screencast (Youtube Video): OK, I mentioned working code and I wasn't kidding — it's stashed in this git repo for now. I expect to move it to git.gnome.org assuming we decide to use this in GNOME. More importantly, I've uploaded the docs here. Oh, and to build this, you will need GLib from the gdbus-codegen branch — fear not, this will be merged to mainline soon!
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9 comments:

  1. PankajApril 27, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    WOW, this is awesome. Will it integrate the calendar, contacts, photos and all the stuff. This will be amazing.
    Thanks a lot for the cool stuff

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  2. davidzApril 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM

    pankaj: thanks! And to answer your question: the intent is that libraries like libsocialweb, e-d-s and apps like Evolution can use this ... and, yeah, the Shell will of use it too — in fact, my main motivation for working on this is that I wanted the calendar drop-down to work (which I wrote) with my Google account out of the box ... without any magic URLs etc etc

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  3. MillerApril 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM

    This is -just- what I was looking for! I can't wait until the shell can tie into web services like this with minimal setup! /me so excited

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  4. AnonymousApril 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    I'm really looking forward to our accounts and contacts features in Gnome 3.2 :)

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  5. UnknownApril 29, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    I've wondered why GNOME didn't have some kind of SSO for online account which fed the info to all services. Now I know. You hadn't written it yet.

    Awesome job!!!

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  6. MishaMay 4, 2011 at 1:55 AM

    You mean you are trying to do something like this:
    http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso

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  7. AnonymousJune 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM

    That's sick. GNOME 3 is gonna' be crazy in the upcoming year or so. Thanks for the hard work. :D

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  8. AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    Great! There are so many ways this can be useful: browser extensions, calendar, IM, microblogging, ...

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  9. CodeLVFebruary 25, 2012 at 1:27 AM

    How can I get a list of the account ids?

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