[Gossip-dev] Nokia released Mission Control

[Jerry Haltom]

> As for the MC release, that's is all good, but this really just
> highlights ANOTHER problem I have seen coming for some time and not
> really known how to deal with. That is that we have 'n' places where we
> store our details on the desktop and there is no ONE place. Well at
> least we have the gnome-about-me dialog which tries to solve that any
> way and we are currently doing work in Gossip with Fillipo to try to
> make the intergration better. However, the accounts information in
> Gossip is something that you can configure in gnome-about-me, Gossip,
> (does evolution have this input somewhere I can't remember?), and now
> MC. I am not sure that using MC from the Nokia device is the best way
> forward, but then I haven't looked at it enough yet to comment properly.

I a potential solution to this is to integrate a single MC into
Telepathy itself. Or at least the configuration parts of it. Convince
the telepathy people that that is the way forward. Basically said MC
just keeps whatever accounts you tell it to online, and provides a
single account store in .telepathy/ or some such (gconf).

Gossip then, perhaps unfortunately, perhaps fortunately, would have the
UI to do that manipulation and instruct the MC to log on and off. The UI
that Gossip already has would be nice for this.

You can then break Gossip apart into n-teenth shared widgets for
interacting with Telepathy back-ends.

All of which is a lot of work.

Good idea, bad idea? Got me. I do suspect that if Gossip doesn't do it,
something else eventually will. I think that's basically just the
direction our desktop (and other desktops) are heading in. I also think
Gossip has a bunch of this work already done, and it would benefit us
all of it was used instead of reinventing it again.