will Ubuntu switch to GNOME Online Accounts?

[Adam Dingle]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> Hey Adam,
> 
> Le 13/05/2017 à 17:30, Adam Dingle a écrit :
>>  With the switch from Unity to GNOME in Artful (17.10), will Ubuntu
>>  Online Accounts be replaced with GNOME Online Accounts?  Or will
>>  Ubuntu continue to have its own, separate online accounts system?  
>> Has
>>  this been decided?
> 
> We are going to use gnome-online-account, the goal is to align with
> upstream technologies where it makes sense. Did you have specific
> concerns about us switching or not?

This is good news.  In a couple of software projects I've been involved 
in (Shotwell, Geary) it's taken significant effort to support both 
GNOME Online Accounts and Ubuntu Online Accounts since we wanted to run 
both on Ubuntu and other GNOME-based systems.  This will be a great 
simplication.

My immediate concern is that gnome-calendar is installed by default in 
Zesty but is semi-broken: I'm unable to add a Google calendar to it, as 
described at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-calendar/+bug/1551769

I believe the problem is likely due to an Ubuntu Online Accounts issue. 
 But if UOA is going away anyway then I'm not inclined to debug it too 
deeply.

adam
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