Overhaul of Accounts

[George Lambrou]

I'm not a coder yet, but might that integration have something to do
with iChat's new service plugin architecture*? Could be something to
look into, but again, it's only a hunch.

George

*I AM aware that using this would basically need Adium to be
rewritten. I just thought I'd throw it out there.

On 2011-08-14, at 12:46 PM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 14, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
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>> David:
>>> What would be really cool is figuring out how to use the new Mail, Contacts & Calendars prefpane in Lion for this :)
>> I don't really see how that would benefit users. Maybe I just don't really get the idea, could you maybe explain a bit more what you exactly want to do?
>>
>>
>> Regards, Patrick
>>
>
> That prefpane is a central location for configuring all types of internet accounts. If you say, type a google account password into Safari, it will prompt you to set it up that way and it can automatically show up in Mail and iChat. No idea if there's an API for it.
>
>    David