FS#26181 - [gnome-online-accounts] only has Google as a backend provider

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gen Zhang (genneth) - Saturday, 01 October 2011, 19:48 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 03 October 2011, 17:53 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Currently, in gnome-online-accounts you can only choose to add a Google account. This is because the package needs various flags like '--enable-facebook'. However, the various other backends which all use OAuth require consumer keys and secrets, which are application specific, and it seems that upstream GNOME has not provided them (Google allows 'anonymous' as the key and secret).

In a way, this feature request is a request for how this should be handled --- I don't know / can't find what upstream wants to do about this. These keys apparently should be held secret, but that clearly doesn't work with FOSS. At the moment, I've worked around them for myself by simply registering myself for them...
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Monday, 03 October 2011, 17:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 01 October 2011, 23:22 GMT
i don't consider this being a bug. eventually gnome is going to support more providers. last time i spoke with the main developer he said that there are legally issues.

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