[Bug 2059966] Re: Sponsorship: Upload gnome-online-accounts-gtk

[Jeremy Bícha]

Since this has been uploaded to the Ubuntu NEW queue, I am unsubscribing
ubuntu-sponsors. Please feel free to resubscribe if you have something
else that needs to be sponsored.

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Title:
  Sponsorship: Upload gnome-online-accounts-gtk

Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  On behalf of Ubuntu Budgie please could you please consider sponsoring
  this package for Noble.

  I will separately pursue upload through Debian
  (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068200) - but
  given the tight release timescales I would hope Ubuntu would consider
  this - I will look after this package under the Ubuntu Budgie
  packageset rights (to be requested via the DMB) for the LTS series

  This application is key for the GTK3 desktops for Ubuntu Budgie,
  Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Unity and potentially for Ubuntu MATE and
  xubuntu.

  I have a build in our PPA - built against noble-proposed for all
  architectures

  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-online-
  accounts/+packages

  The source and packaging is within this PPA - note the changelog has
  ~ppa suffix which needs removing before uploading to NEW

  Package: wnpp
  Severity: wishlist

  Owner: David Mohammed (hidden)

  Package name : gnome-online-accounts-gtk
  Version : 3.50.1
  Upstream Author : Linux Mint <root at linuxmint.com>
  URL : https://github.com/linuxmint/gnome-online-accounts-gtk
  License : GPL 3/3+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : GUI Utility for logging into online accounts
  Enter login details for some online services such as Google and Facebook.
  This enables applications to access online services like email,
  calendars, chat and documents.
  .
  This is a standalone application for desktop environments where
  GNOME Online Accounts capability is not integrated in their equivalent
  settings utility.

  Details:
  Upstream blog post https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4660

  "GNOME Online Accounts, aka “GOA”, is a project which allows users to
  connect to their data in the cloud. This project was only designed for
  GNOME though so it doesn’t provide any front-end. It only provides
  libraries (namely libgoa and libgoa-backend).

  Other than GNOME, many desktop environments integrated a front-end to
  these libraries in their control center: Cinnamon, Budgie, Unity, etc.

  This project is important because it doesn’t just connect a desktop to
  the cloud, it’s used by many applications and libraries. Among other
  things you might use it to connect the Calendar application, the
  Thunderbird email program or the file browser to your online data.

  With GNOME 46, libgoa/libgoa-backend 3.50 moved to GTK4. It can no
  longer be used by GTK3 applications.

  To solve this problem a new XApp called GNOME Online Account GTK was
  created. As any XApp its goal is to work for everybody, in any desktop
  environment and in any Linux distribution.

  This app makes it possible for Cinnamon/Budgie/Unity users to continue
  to use this functionality. It also provides it to any desktop that
  didn’t have access to it before (for instance: MATE and Xfce editions
  in Linux Mint)."

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