Comment 3 for bug 1544033

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dobey (dobey) wrote :

Marking this invalid in pay-ui. Placing the blame on pay-ui for online-accounts having inappropriate requirements for having an installed account plug-in show up on the "Add Accounts" of requiring an "application" to be installed which is registered as using the account, is incorrect and inappropriate. The fact is that pay-ui is not an application, and we will not fix it to install a .desktop file as it if were an application.

It is a very special .click package, and it will hopefully no longer be a click package soon, so it will disappear from this view anyway. However, the problem will still remain that it will be impossible to add a U1, Twitter, or other account type, when there is no "registered application" that claims use of it. The fact is that pay-ui, click-scope, ubuntu-push-client, etc… are not "applications" in the sense of how we use that term for .click packages, nor as is expected by online-accounts. This requirement in online-accounts is simply wrong, as I've argued previously. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding the bug where I previously argued this point.