[Telepathy] AccountManager API?

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 at 11:36:24 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> There is apparently an AccountManager D-Bus interface that has
> information about all telepathy accounts.
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager

AccountManager and the currently-in-draft ChannelDispatcher are
implemented by beta versions of Mission Control 5. They are not yet
considered sufficiently stable for telepathy-glib to generate code (we'd
have to break ABI all the time).

Mission Control 4 (the version currently recommended for use) provides
roughly analogous functionality, but most of it is via a C API rather
than D-Bus.

This is currently an area of heavy development; we're aware that the
current situation isn't very good. MC 5 isn't yet ready for
desktop use (it has no ABI guarantees at the moment).

> I was hoping that I could use this interface to get all the
> parameters needed by 
> tp_cli_connection_manager_call_request_connection()
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-connection-manager.html#tp-cli-connection-manager-call-request-connection

The idea is that the AccountManager (or MC4 if that's what you're using)
calls RequestConnection for you, so (for instance) the Empathy contact
list/notification area icon only ever needs to interact with accounts,
not with RequestConnection parameters.

The account creation/editing UI (e.g. Edit->Accounts in Empathy) is still
expected to be able to cope with RequestConnection parameters (they have
to be supplied to MC somehow). It finds out the required/optional
parameters using TpConnectionManager, and uses protocol/CM-specific
knowledge to provide a suitable UI to ask for them.

    Simon