Replacing Accounts Wizard with Online Accounts

[Daniel Vrátil]

Hi all,

for Qt6/KF6, we need to port Account Wizard away from Kross, and QML is the 
obvious candidate. I even wrote down a task a while ago to port AW to QML 
(TT9421)

During this year's Akademy I made a proof of concept integration between 
Online Accounts and Akonadi and that makes me wonder whether we should bother 
with porting AW to QML, or if we could drop it and use the similar wizard-like 
infrastructure provided by OA and port the AW plugins to QML and OA instead.

This is /not/ about replacing the general account management in Kontact yet, 
but purely just the AW. However, it may pave the way to replace our account 
management with OA in the future. I can imagine KOrganizer or KAddressbook 
could just embed the OA KCM in their "Accounts" settings tab...

The current account management in KMail is complained about frequently by 
users as setting up an account is a rather tedious task. At the same time OA 
support is being often requested by users, so I think replacing AW with OA 
could be a good first step to improve general user experience when it comes to 
account management.

Opinions?

/Dan

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