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Alberto Mardegan (mardy) wrote : Re: [Bug 1257505] Re: Create Unity Control Center so can remain on old GNOME Control Center version

On 01/10/2014 01:47 PM, Tim wrote:
> No, we ship GOA by default, however we do have users that use UOA
> as well (its just not installed by default). there are definitely a sub-set of
> apps that only work with UOA, sometimes this is due to Ubuntu patches
> , in other cases its just lack of upstream support for those apps.

Right. So, the gnome-control-center-signon source package which provides
the UOA applet allows building the UOA applet as a standalone
application. Maybe we should package the standalone app in a separate
package, and make it available to GNOME users? In this way, they could
access UOA without having to install the unity-control-center.
Would this address your concerns?

[...]
>> - If built with UOA support (as it is in Ubuntu), Empathy currently
>> opens the UOA panel when asked to configure accounts; we should probably
>> change that to a run-time decision, maybe based on the contents of
>> XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
> I filed a patch upsteam for that, but it was never merged.

Found it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701903