Online Accounts improvements
With the new GNOME 3.5.3 release this week, it is a good time to highlight the UI/UX related patches against the Online Accounts panel that got merged recently. There isn’t much to write about because the changes are visual. So I will leave you with a few screenshots.
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Why is Windows Live the first service offered?
Kamil Páral
26 June, 2012 at 01:11
There is no particular reason for that. We still don’t support any provider whose server side software is under a free software license, so all the existing options are equally bad from a political standpoint. ownCloud support has been asked for, but I need an account on an ownCloud instance for that. I took a shot at installing it on my laptop, but it did not work out.
Debarshi Ray
26 June, 2012 at 03:49
Unless there’s a good reason, shouldn’t the list be sorted alphabetically then?
Jeremy Bicha
26 June, 2012 at 16:07
See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/678907
Debarshi Ray
27 June, 2012 at 12:19
Is Google 2-factor authentication supported now?
Reinout van Schouwen (@reinouts)
28 June, 2012 at 00:42
Sorry for the late reply. I saw your comment and then meant to reply and it completely slipped from my mind.
I have never tried 2-factor authentication myself, but David (ie. David Zeuthen) expects it to work. Does it not work for you?
Debarshi Ray
8 July, 2012 at 01:07
[…] the user’s online accounts into the desktop. Towards this end, almost a year ago, a new single sign-on (SSO) framework was written for GNOME 3.2. However, more recently, Ubuntu created its own SSO to achieve a similar […]
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