observations about the FB integration

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Sep 2 06:13:38 PDT 2015


> On Sep 2, 2015, at 1:25 AM, Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> 
>> It is indeed the Facebook site, shown the way Facebook recommends that
>> applications do things. The challenge with opening it in a separate
>> browser window is getting back the token into Subsurface. Not impossible,
>> but not something anyone has undertaken.
> 
> I can't think of an obvious easy way to do it. The way gwenview does it
> is to open the browser window and then the user needs to copy and
> paste the URL into the application.
> 
> It is a bit bad, but I would be more reassured that it is indeed Facebook.

I think as a user experience it sucks. And I think the vast majority of users
would much prefer what we have today.

>> Where do you think would be a good place for it?
> I would probably make a top level menu called "export" with all the
> options currently in the export dialog.
> 
> I wouldn't want to add a toolbar for just 1 button.

That's a reasonable request. Let me see what others think.

/D


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