There is a new feature called gnome-online-accounts, which has been introduced in Gnome3 , but its still not integrated into Ubuntu 11.10.
Does anyone know how to get this working?
I've been looking at this from the perspective of adding support for this in some GNOME Do plugins. gnome-online-accounts is basically a single-sign-on API. It provides a way for applications to get an authentication cookie for the configured online accounts. It does not provide anything else; it's up to the application to know how to use that cookie to talk to the online service.
As such, it's entirely dependent on the applications to (a) query gnome-online-accounts for configured online services, and (b) actually know how to interact with those online services.
You can think of it as basically gnome-keyring for your online services. It has been integrated into Ubuntu 11.10, in so much as the GNOME apps which support g-o-a will use it; there just aren't many apps that use it yet ☺.
It seems its partially incorporated! I installed gnome-documents. It works. It picked up the documents from my google docs after a restart. However Evolution and Empathy does not pickup gmail and gtalk automatically. It has to be added manually. It does not show events from google calendar as well.
UPDATE: After today's update, Evolution is automatically picking up gmail accounts and google calendar dates are being shown below the calendar in both Unity and Gnome SHell. Only updates missing are from Empathy. I am assuming this will be integrated by 13th.
I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like basic support was integrated into ubuntu 11.10 recently. After updating, you can find it in the user indicator under 'Online Accounts...'
The online accounts only work with Google at the moment. According to a post on the Gnome developers mailing list we should see more coming down the line, but possibly not until Gnome 3.4 list thread
Of course I am assuming that once this gets developed Ubuntu will have it integrated as well.
I've been looking at this from the perspective of adding support for this in some GNOME Do plugins.
gnome-online-accountsis basically a single-sign-on API. It provides a way for applications to get an authentication cookie for the configured online accounts. It does not provide anything else; it's up to the application to know how to use that cookie to talk to the online service.As such, it's entirely dependent on the applications to (a) query
gnome-online-accountsfor configured online services, and (b) actually know how to interact with those online services.You can think of it as basically
gnome-keyringfor your online services. It has been integrated into Ubuntu 11.10, in so much as the GNOME apps which supportg-o-awill use it; there just aren't many apps that use it yet ☺.It seems its partially incorporated! I installed gnome-documents. It works. It picked up the documents from my google docs after a restart. However Evolution and Empathy does not pickup gmail and gtalk automatically. It has to be added manually. It does not show events from google calendar as well. UPDATE: After today's update, Evolution is automatically picking up gmail accounts and google calendar dates are being shown below the calendar in both Unity and Gnome SHell. Only updates missing are from Empathy. I am assuming this will be integrated by 13th.
I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like basic support was integrated into ubuntu 11.10 recently. After updating, you can find it in the user indicator under 'Online Accounts...'
The online accounts only work with Google at the moment. According to a post on the Gnome developers mailing list we should see more coming down the line, but possibly not until Gnome 3.4 list thread
Of course I am assuming that once this gets developed Ubuntu will have it integrated as well.