How to integrate gnome-online-accounts?
I've been looking at this from the perspective of adding support for this in some GNOME Do plugins. gnome-online-accounts
is basically a single-sign-on API. It provides a way for applications to get an authentication cookie for the configured online accounts. It does not provide anything else; it's up to the application to know how to use that cookie to talk to the online service.
As such, it's entirely dependent on the applications to (a) query gnome-online-accounts
for configured online services, and (b) actually know how to interact with those online services.
You can think of it as basically gnome-keyring
for your online services. It has been integrated into Ubuntu 11.10, in so much as the GNOME apps which support g-o-a
will use it; there just aren't many apps that use it yet ☺.
It seems its partially incorporated! I installed gnome-documents. It works. It picked up the documents from my google docs after a restart. However Evolution and Empathy does not pickup gmail and gtalk automatically. It has to be added manually. It does not show events from google calendar as well. UPDATE: After today's update, Evolution is automatically picking up gmail accounts and google calendar dates are being shown below the calendar in both Unity and Gnome SHell. Only updates missing are from Empathy. I am assuming this will be integrated by 13th.