[online-accounts] No edit UI
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu UX |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Matthew Paul Thomas | ||
ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently there is no way to edit an accounts credentials and other settings stored in an online account.
This is needed for apps like Dekko that will store a lot of editable details such as server addresses, port numbers etc. These should be easily editable after account creation and not have to delete and re-create an account just to adjust one value.
As an example, a server or corporate policy might be in place that you have to change your password every 90 days. This will be inconvenient to the user to have to re-create the account and also lose any additional (possibly critical) data stored in an app that is bound to that account.
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Questions to Design team:
1) is it OK to let account providers add more content to that page?
2) if yes, where should this content appear?
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
assignee: | John Lea (johnlea) → nobody |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) |
Just a small correction: updating the password is supported by Online Accounts and does not require editing the account: we have a mechanism in place where the client can request for a password update, and that happens as part of the authorization process. /wiki.ubuntu. com/Process/ Merges/ TestPlan/ ubuntu- system- settings- online- accounts, if you want to give it a try.
Currently it's buggy, but it will work :-)
See the "password-query" test case in https:/
Nevertheless, this bug report makes sense for the other cases, when connection parameters change. At some point an e-mail provider might force SSL, or change the address of the imap server.