Online accounts?

UnkleBonehead 2015-03-15 17:03:32 UTC #1

Is it possible to incorporate online accounts similar to standard ubuntu? ie Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc so that you could post directly to those from the desktop?

Wimpy 2015-03-15 19:05:25 UTC #2

Not anytime soon. None of the required currently exists in MATE

UnkleBonehead 2015-03-15 20:47:36 UTC #3

So thats desktop thing and not distro thing. Bummer. Think it would be hard to implement in Mate since it is a fork of Gnome 2?
Probably a lot of backend stuff to implement.

UnkleBonehead 2015-03-15 21:01:51 UTC #4

Would this install?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/gnome/gnome-online-accounts

I'm willing to be the guinea pig!

Wimpy 2015-03-15 21:17:49 UTC #5

Yeah, we need to have a think about online integration in MATE. We can derived from existing code, but this is not something the MATE team have started planning.

JohnBlood 2015-03-15 22:08:29 UTC #6

Do mean for yourself or for the distro?

If the latter, the only thing I would worry about (as a non-developer and a non-coder) is the problems that might develop if Ubuntu MATE includes Gnome Online Accounts and then MATE releases its own Online Accounts plugin. I would worry about the two programs conflicting or non-techies becoming confused between the two, especially if GOA is later replaced by MOA.

Please let me know it I'm sounding crazy because it's hard to tell from this end. Just trying to cover the bases.

UnkleBonehead 2015-03-15 22:24:00 UTC #7

myself.
And you're not crazy.

JohnBlood 2015-03-15 22:26:55 UTC #8

Thanks, but that's not what eveyone else tells me.

ggallozz 2015-07-06 08:45:15 UTC #9

and what about they have done in Mint?

Wimpy 2015-07-07 10:42:59 UTC #10

Do you mean the Cinnamon edition? If so, that is based on GNOME3 so they can use gnome-online-accounts.

ggallozz 2015-07-07 11:18:24 UTC #11

No, the post matter was MATE so I was telling about this ...
In Linux Mint MATE I had online accounts running

Bernard_Tremblay 2016-07-15 18:08:59 UTC #12

Since we are now working on Mate 16.10, is it any possibility that onlilne accounts appears in Mate ???

Since Mate is being more based on GTK3 now , does it make it easier now ???

PS: I like this integration with online account in unity and gnome!

And if it is a no. What do you suggest to handle online accounts like : google, yahoo, hotmail, ... ????
I want to sync with my online account on a local directory and be able to send direct messages or email messages.

thomasn 2016-07-16 11:05:56 UTC #13

For email I just use Thunderbird, which should work fine with all services you mentioned.

n.s.russell 2017-04-07 13:14:26 UTC #14

That's fair enough. I have no idea how online accounts work in the first place.

If you installed a new email client, with an email account set up via the online accounts tool, would the client have access to that account automatically, or is it something that email clients have to build in support for themselves?