Re: GNOME Online Accounts 3.34 won't have documents support

Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> wrote:
...
> GNOME apps are not, and were never the only consumers of the gnome-
> online-accounts capabilities,

There's been a rather big grey area around Online Accounts. The UX was
always designed as a system service, for use by the core apps, but we
never enforced this, partly because we haven't had sandboxing in the
past.

Of course, if we're taking app isolation seriously then we obviously
ought to limit access to online accounts. The grey area has to be made
black and white.

> and, correct me if I'm wrong, but the
> only problems we had with applications doing something that wasn't
> liked in the past were in *platform* components, not even in core
> applications.

It's important that we have the ability to correct problems when they
do happen. To me that implies that only our software should use our
keys.

...
> Flip it on its head and please suggest why, nowadays, any application
> developer, whether for a GNOME application or a third-party, would
> spend time integrating services into gnome-online-accounts, or using
> gnome-online-accounts for functionality that's somewhat core to the
> application experience, when the rug can be pulled from under your app
> at any point?

That's not what's happening here. Until very recently, Debarshi was
the Documents maintainer, and he's obviously been fully involved.

Allan