observations about the FB integration

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 07:37:37 PDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.

What would it take to have a button to view the server certificate
details? Would that be enough to sooth the nerves of the paranoid
people?

miika


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