[Telepathy] GNOME/KDE: standarisation of secret schemas

[Dario Freddi]

2012/7/16 Debarshi Ray <rishi.is at lostca.se>:
>> What I am missing here is how all this blends with
>> gnome-online-accounts and the future kde web-accounts kcm. I'm not
>> sure how GOA works
>
> GOA is a single sign-on mechanism. When you add a new account in GOA, what it
> does is verify the credentials supplied by the user and stores it in
> gnome-keyring via libsecret. The credentials can be a OAuth 1 or OAuth 2 token,
> a password, etc..
>
> Applications can then query GOA and get a list of configured accounts, the
> credentials, and features provided by the account (eg., mail, contacts, etc.).
> GOA can also supply some configuration related to the account. eg., for a
> Google account it provides the IMAP and SMTP details which are needed to set
> up a GMail account. That way an application (eg., Evolution) can auto
> configure itself.

This is pretty much what webaccounts in KDE does. I'm CC'ing the
maintainer in this discussion, probably it might be worth researching
this outside the Telepathy area and in a broader perspective, as
George suggested.

>
> Happy hacking,
> Debarshi
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