On Jan 3, 2016 1:02 PM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 19:03 +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> ... is it possible to not remove the chat support from GOA, but just
> make it invisible unless Empathy is installed?
It should be possible; it would just require changes in gnome-online-
accounts. But it seems undesirable to me. If Empathy gets downgraded to
be a normal application, rather than a core component of our OS like it
is now, then we should not offer configuration for it in System
Settings. Application configuration should be the province of
applications.
> If it is completely removed, what happens for upgrades? Do I lose the
> chat accounts I configured in GOA in F23 if I upgrade to F24?
Yes; you'd have to add all the accounts again in Empathy's account
preferences. I think this is an acceptable one-time cost.
....
Michael
--
What do you think about the idea of leaving IRC in goa, and if a user adds
an IRC account there, either install the preferred client for them or pull
them over to a Software view of compatible clients?
--Pete