observations about the FB integration

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 05:37:37PM +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
> 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?

No. Our UI is convoluted enough. We will not add more convoluted things
for the people who will not be happy with whatever we do, anyway.

Simply don't use Facebook.

/D