KAccounts plans

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> here's the current status of KAccounts and the future plans.
>
> KAccounts itself is pretty much ready to roll. It's waiting for a release
> because there was a slight screw up in the translations, but will be
> released shortly (basically just entering string freeze so ~2 weeks).
>
So will it be released with 2014.12? I think that's great news!


>
> One unresolved thing for now is KAccounts provider files for
> telepathy-haze accounts. Basically each account in KAccounts requires a
> provider file with basic description (eg. Jabber) and a service file which
> lists the available services (eg. Chat). In KTp we have fake profiles for
> haze so they magically appear in the current kcm, for KAccounts we cannot
> have fake provider files, so provider and service files need to be created
> for all haze supported accounts. I plan to put this in ktp-accounts-kcm and
> install it together with the other data.
>
> In order to have KTp using KAccounts, three patches need to get in (please
> review the last two):
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119955/
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120521/
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120215/
>
> Once all three all ship it'd, I'll merge all three at once. That will
> effectively require you to have the following present:
> libaccounts-glib
> libaccounts-qt
> signond
> kde:signon-kwallet-extension
> signon-plugin-oauth2
> lp:signon-ui
> kde:kaccounts-providers
> kde:kaccounts-integration
>
> Details for setting all up at http://bit.ly/1xEpylg
>
> Migration - automated migration will not be possible for all accounts,
> like Google and Facebook, because currently we're using the password based
> authentication, but KAccounts for Google and Facebook uses/needs OAuth
> authentication, so it cannot just be migrated directly. As for other
> accounts, I'm not sure if it's possible to get into kde4 kwallet data from
> KF5, anyone knows? For regular jabber accounts and some other haze ones I
> think a simple migration agent recreating the accounts in KAccounts could
> be part of the KAccounts daemon. Another question is history logs
> migration, I think this will be quite wanted feature. I /think/ that by
> simple recreating the account in Telepathy the logs will remain (as the
> accounts have the same id), can someone confirm?
>
> I'd like to get this in asap as frameworks ports are appearing and this
> critical new piece of the infrastructure should get a lot of testing before
> KTp on frameworks is released.
>

I'd like that too, I'll go through the reviews, but I fear the biggest
problem will be that none of us is really experienced in the *Accounts
world.
I'm convinced it will be a good new technology to rely on, though.

Cheers!
Aleix
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