Comment 4 for bug 834830

Thanks for this insightful report, Jono.

I discussed this with Stewart Wilson, who is designing Web accounts integration. He said that in Ubuntu 12.04, the "Online Accounts" panel will not be installed by default (except, in an upgrade, if anyone has used it already).

So, I think this bug will be fixed when that removal is implemented, and when the "Online Accounts" item is removed from the user menu. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeviceMenuAndUserMenu#cleanup>

Further integration of account types -- e.g. a Yahoo account that works with both Empathy and Thunderbird, or the long-discussed ability to log in to Ubuntu using your Ubuntu One account -- should be, I think, out of the scope of this bug report.