well, given that each different website api will require custom code for accessing it, requiring a particular auth method based on oauth2 doesn't really increase the complexity much :/
2012-10-25 29953, 2012
luks
yep
2012-10-25 29933, 2012
kepstin-work
i mean, it would be nice to have a standard way of handling this so that you don't have to implement separate different auth libraries per api, buut yeah :/
2012-10-25 29947, 2012
luks
I think it's not that bad actually, because it enabled providers to integrate it better with their service
2012-10-25 29931, 2012
luks
when seeing the blog about github introducing oauth, I was surprised that they still call *that* oauth :)
2012-10-25 29950, 2012
luks
they have some weird ways to use the auth tokens
2012-10-25 29924, 2012
luks
but git with oauth would not be possible if it required some standard auth method
2012-10-25 29929, 2012
kepstin-work
gmail lets you use their oauth tokens in the IMAP email protocol for authentication.
2012-10-25 29941, 2012
kepstin-work
which is just crazy
2012-10-25 29951, 2012
kepstin-work
but actually works, and is now integrated with gnome 3.
2012-10-25 29918, 2012
kepstin-work
you can login once to google using oauth2 from a control panel in gnome3, and it'll setup and authenticate instant messenger, documents, calendar, email, and contacts all at once.
2012-10-25 29944, 2012
luks
except it doesn't work without evolution, which I'm definitely not going to use :/
2012-10-25 29920, 2012
kepstin-work
what do you have against evolution?
2012-10-25 29927, 2012
kepstin-work is quite pleased with it.
2012-10-25 29930, 2012
luks
I have no use for it
2012-10-25 29939, 2012
nikki
heh, that was a funny thing to read pop up in the corner of my screen
2012-10-25 29943, 2012
luks
but I'd still like to see my google calendar in gnome
2012-10-25 29949, 2012
nikki
(completely out of context)
2012-10-25 29907, 2012
kepstin-work
luks: they are actually working on splitting out the calendar into a separate app right now.
2012-10-25 29914, 2012
luks
I'd really like if gnome was a framework and not insist on particular technologies
2012-10-25 29940, 2012
kepstin-work
but all of the calendar and contacts stuff is still handled in the backend by evolution-data-server
2012-10-25 29947, 2012
luks
I have the same problem with telepathy, which has various bugs where pidgin just works, but gnome is so tighthly integrated with it that it doesn't make sense to switch it
2012-10-25 29948, 2012
kepstin-work is still annoyed that contact merging in telepathy doesn't go all the way down.
2012-10-25 29958, 2012
luks
(I tried to change the availability icon in the status menu with pidgin but gave up)
