[Gossip-dev] Nokia released Mission Control

[Martyn Russell]

Jerry Haltom wrote:
>> 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.
>  
> 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.

I think, for now, I would like to see account management done by Gossip
or gnome-about-me. I am not sure where this truly belongs. But again, I
need to look at MC to see what it does before really commenting on it.

> 
> 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.

Yes, this is the nature of software. The same could be true of GTK+ if
more resources aren't put into it - resources are seriously lacking
here. Of course, this is an extreme, I don't mean to alarm anyone.

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Regards,
Martyn