Re: [SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution and Ubuntu Online Accounts
On 12/04/2013 02:03 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 13:13 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 12:42 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>> I can enable GNOME Online Account support easily in these binaries. That
>> will work for Google CalDAV with GNOME >= 3.8 and Google CardDAV with
>> GNOME >= 3.10. But does Ubuntu still have the GNOME Online Accounts UI?
>> I noticed that Quantal has the packages, but I haven't tried to use
>> them.
>
> Yes, GOA is packaged in Ubuntu and will be visible in the control
> center, if you use the GNOME 3 session.
But that is not the default, right?
It's the default in the GNOME session. Under Unity, GOA is not visible.
>> Enabling Ubuntu Online Accounts did not work immediately,
because my
>> compile platform (Quantal) was too old. Would it be worthwhile to invest
>> more work into this?
>
> No, I think that the only sensible thing to do is add the required
> package versions in the configure.ac bits (I wrote the needed versions
> in the bug report), and do not bother supporting older releases;
> otherwise the delta between UOA and gSSO would get much bigger.
Let's rephrase ;-) Would it be useful for Ubuntu users to support a more
recent Ubuntu distro, and if so, which one?
I'm afraid I still don't get it :-)
If you are asking what's the target release for this work: it's
primarily driven by Ubuntu Touch, but could possibly land in the 14.04
LTS as well. I'm developing it in "Trusty".
Ciao,
Alberto