On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:36, Debarshi Ray <rishi...@lostca.se> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 02:49:55PM +0000, Emmanuele Bassi via > desktop-devel-list wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 14:21, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > If apps could provide their own keys that would certainly change the > > > picture (I didn't actually know it was a possibility.) It would also > > > change the nature of Online Accounts of course; it's always been > > > designed as part of the system, that's used by the system and the core > > > apps. Might take a little thought. > > > > > > > We had a key store for web services API keys in Moblin/MeeGo, as part of > > libsocialweb, mostly because we couldn't have OEMs ship with Intel OTC > > keys, and OEMs didn't want to make their key public either. :-) > > > > Re-implementing that would not be hard, especially if we make it a > > prerequisite that new services must come with their own key. > Additionally, > > it would let downstream vendors ship their own keys, if they are so > > inclined. > > I don't understand. > > Say, we had a GNOME API key for Google and another for application > Foo. For all intents and purposes, those would need to be presented > separately to the user. The user would have to sign in separately to > GNOME and Foo and grant permission to each key, and so on. That's just > how the services work. > If the "GNOME" API key is marked as the "system" key, then we only show the GNOME key; if the system key does not exist, we show the Foo application key. It's already feasible for a downstream to replace all the default > GNOME upstream keys shipped with GOA with their own using the build > flags. For example, Fedora could do that, as long as they are careful > enough to configure their keys properly. > I'm proposing adding run time discovery on top of build time. > What isn't possible is to mix and match API keys with account types at > run-time. That doesn't seem trivial to implement - neither from a code > nor a design perspective. Possible, sure; trivial, no. > I didn't say "trivial", but I didn't expect this to be hard. You, of course, know better than me how hard it would be, so I'll defer to your assessment. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
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