GNOME, Endless OS, and the like
As part of the ongoing work to revitalise GNOME Online Accounts, it no longer uses an embedded webview for account authentication and instead uses the system web browser. This is both for desirable usability reasons โ better to use your normal trusted web browser that may even already be logged into your online account than a random webview โ and also because the providers of the online accounts in question very strongly prefer not to allow people to log in via an embedded webview for security/a...
GNOME, Endless OS, and the like
It's exciting to see the ongoing work to revitalise GNOME Online Accounts. One section of this post jumped out to me: Another big step to improving reliability and maintainability is updating to the latest dependencies and industry conventions. This meant first supporting OAuth 2.0 in a standard browser so, for example, when you log into...