Accounts handling in Plasma 5

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday 27 August 2014 14:43:19 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > Is it still possible to call the KAccounts KCM from the KTp contact list
> > or
> > Plasmoid? That would be important because when users start KTp and see
> > there
> > are no accounts yet, they wouldn't manually go to the KAccounts KCM via
> > System
> > Settings.
> 
> Not at the moment, but yes, that will be of course replaced. I think I'll
> leave this for the frameworks port of the contact list.

We also have the context menu option in the Presence Plasmoid, that should be 
replaced as well.

>  > What's missing
>  > 
> > >  * edit identity button
> > >  * edit account details (including display name & icon)
> > >  * proper/simple Salut handling like we do now
> > 
> > We already talked about the Edit Identity/Account Details dualism we
> > currently
> > have at the KTp sprint: I don't think it makes sense, because the
> > distinction
> > is not clear for users anyway.
> > There still should be a way to change the avatar and display name
> > somewhere
> > (together with the other account settings), shouldn't there? I assume that
> > functionality just isn't there _yet_, right?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > Then there's the fact that this makes KTp hard-depend on the Accounts-SSO
> > 
> > > framework starting with frameworks, which is fine with me, but if you
> > 
> > have
> > 
> > > objections, please speak up now. If you have any other questions, please
> > > ask.
> > 
> > That sounds fine for me, as long as users in other DEs can use their
> > account
> > setup UI and not need to use KDE's.
> 
> What do you mean? Like Gnome not depending on KAccounts? Well I would have
> personally no problem with that, but that would never happen anyway.
> Besides, in KDE, we're lacking behind with the Accounts config, Gnome and
> Unity has it for years, now elementaryOS joined in and we're still lacking.
> But not for long.

What I mean is that when someone sets up IM accounts in e.g. GNOME's GUI for 
the Accounts-SSO framework, would they work in KTp?