GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 777596
Host web services for GNOME users (email, calendar, etc)
Last modified: 2018-09-21 15:27:09 UTC
Not sure if this is the right place to suggest such an undertaking. GNOME users would benefit from a non-Google entity that respects privacy and provides integration with the GNOME desktop. Such services might include: - email - calendar - syncing or backing up notes, bookmarks, etc - account used for GNOME software ratings, recipe submissions, etc Charging an annual fee for these services would help cover costs of this and other projects. It seems increasingly beneficial to the GNOME community to have access to a web account tied to GNOME to interact with GNOME's various services and applications which involve user accounts.
There are non-Google entities that respect privacy and I don't know which "integration with the GNOME desktop" you are exactly missing. Please clarify.
GNOME Software lets users share reviews, but these reviews can't be deleted or edited by users, nor can accounts be banned or controlled, because it's all just tied to a user's local login name. Providing a GNOME web account would allow users to be banned, to manage their reviews, etc. It would also keep users from being able to influence ratings by rating multiple times and leaving multiple comments. GNOME Recipes is looking for user submissions to be included. Being able to share recipes via a web service provided by GNOME would allow those recipes to be updated and other recipes to be found, formatted specifically for the recipes app, from a GNOME database of user-shared recipes. GNOME Web is working on a syncing feature for at least bookmarks (I'm not sure if they plan on history, open tabs, etc). A GNOME hosted service for handling GNOME Web bookmarks seems logical. There are various other apps that would be able to implement backup/restore from a web service. GNOME games could restore scores so that they're preserved across installs. GNOME Books could backup bookmarks when they're implemented, remembered locations in books could be restored across installs. GNOME System Settings could even remember settings -- background, notifications settings, user avatar, color profile, etc.
I don't see sufficient (wo)manpower to set up and especially maintain that. We've already struggled with maintaining extensions.gnome.org in the past...
(In reply to erusan from comment #2) > GNOME Software lets users share reviews, but these reviews can't be deleted > or edited by users, nor can accounts be banned or controlled, because it's > all just tied to a user's local login name. Providing a GNOME web account > would allow users to be banned, to manage their reviews, etc. It would also > keep users from being able to influence ratings by rating multiple times and > leaving multiple comments. Richard Hughes is your man for that. He runs that infrastructure.
Requiring setting up a specific "GNOME Login" or some account was an explicit anti-goal when submitting reviews. See https://odrs.gnome.org/ for details.
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