[Bug 24896] New: Account.Interface.Conditions

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24896

           Summary: Account.Interface.Conditions
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: low
         Component: tp-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
            Blocks: 24894


Maemo 5 uses various extended interfaces beyond what's in telepathy-spec,
including those in:

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=telepathy-mission-control.git;a=tree;f=xml;hb=master

One of those is Account.Interface.Conditions, used by account creation tools in
Maemo to set conditions on accounts, so that the connectivity plugin in OMC
(using Maemo's libconic) can act only on accounts that need Internet access
(i.e. everything except telephony and possibly telepathy-salut).

In theory this interface can support arbitrary conditions, but in practice the
only one MC knows how to satisfy is "ip-route", which causes it to use the
connectivity plugin.

I think this is rather overengineered for what it currently does; meanwhile,
Alberto thinks it's insufficient for what it was meant to do, which was to
support arbitrary connectivity conditions, like being on a particular VPN.

(Relatedly, Mission Control's connectivity-plugin C API seems not to be ideal -
the division of responsibility between MC and the plugin is not at all clear -
so the code needs rethinking anyway.)


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