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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] configuration in akonadi-next
From:       Christian Mollekopf <chrigi_1 () fastmail ! fm>
Date:       2014-12-18 16:26:12
Message-ID: 2167845.45uN4ePCBa () t420s ! chrigi
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On Thursday 18 December 2014 16.58:12 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 09.56:14 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > That is moreless how KAccounts works these days.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> How well does KAccounts work on Windows / Mac / Android?
> What dependencies does it bring?
> Is the SSO daemon a requirement, or can we pull that in-process on platforms
> where we will need to?
> 
> A reasonable (good, even) goal is to centralize configuration of accounts,
> however this only really makes sense in environments where this is
> integrated (so.. Plasma and Unity, currently). On Windows/Mac this probably
> makes less sense .. how difficult is it to embed the configuration in the
> application (e.g. Kontact) when necessary?
> 
> I can see us using the "full environment integration" approach on Linux, but
> for Win/Mac/Android we probably need something a bit less integrated with
> the environment as a whole and a bit more with the application itself.

Even on linux I wouldn't want to replace the mail config in kmail with an 
accounts setup page. IMO the same config should be accessible from inside the 
application and from a separate accounts setup page. So in either case 
integration with application configs is a requirement IMO.
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