[Bug 278995] Add installer for different account types

[David Edmundson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278995


David Edmundson <kde at davidedmundson.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |kde at davidedmundson.co.uk
          Component|contactlist                 |accounts-kcm
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1




--- Comment #1 from David Edmundson <kde davidedmundson co uk>  2011-08-01 14:44:14 ---
-Confirming
-Changing component to Accounts KCM.

I agree with you with regards to the problem. We need to do something to
explain to a user "more options may be available".

However I'm not sure your solution is rock solid either. The only way we can do
what you suggest is to hardcode all the possible telepathy protocols. 

This would suck too, it's not very future proof or backwards compatible. As an
extra complication there are two packages that support MSN, I beleive Salut
(the people nearby backend) is to be replaced too - so different distros may be
shipping all sorts of possible combinations of these. We have no idea what a
distro may ship, so how can we tell the user which backend to install?

The code was written to be very flexible to cope with newer telepathy backends
that this code isn't designed for, and to cope with legacy components too. It
would be a shame to hardcode something that effectively breaks that.

Needs discussion - will try to bring it up at our next meeting.

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