Online Accounts has no explanation or help menu

[Andrew]

There is no explanation of what the 'Online Accounts' window is for. It has no help menu, and pressing F1 has no effect.

The window prompts me to 'Select an account' or add an account type of 'Google', but I have no idea what will happen if I do. As a cautious Internet user, I refuse to proceed without more information about what this application is designed to do.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 11:25:45 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago)
XsessionErrors:
 (gwibber-service:2169): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible. Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.
 (gedit:3149): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
 (gedit:29486): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 19.92-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

It seems to do nothing in fact.

[Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart)]

I agree with Lox. I opened it and it shows that Google is the only account you can add.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This is an upstream issue an it would be nice if someone would report it to GNOME. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Pressing F1 in GNOME Online Accounts now brings up help about the feature.

I can fix this for Ubuntu Online Accounts too for Ubuntu 13.10 Alpha "Saucy".

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:gnome-control-center-signon at revision 165, scheduled for release in gnome-control-center-signon, milestone Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center-signon - 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center-signon (0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

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