DEPRECATED NOTICE

GConf is no longer used for account management!

• DEPRECATED NOTICE
• Authentication data stored in GConf
• Details
• Using the GUI
• Using gconftool-2

Authentication data stored in GConf

Authentication data is now stored within GConf. There is not (and will never be) any import from netrc files. They were merely a hack to ease the development into not having to worry much about that instead of important features.

The bonus advantage is, of course, that you now can have multiple accounts in the same domain, whereas with netrc only one per domain would be possible.

Details

Using the GUI

Domains

Domains are internet domains compatible with twitter api. They can be on different web roots so you need to define them. Eg twitter is "", identi.ca is "/api", others could be "/twitter/like/api" etc...

In the first run, elmdentica registers identi.ca and twitter.com domains if they don't exist. It also forces you to create an account. If there is no preset domain, then elmdentica will force you to add a domain, before.

In the settings, if you press on Domains...

You get a list of domains. You can now add and delete domains:

Accounts

The upper right corner button will take you to the settings window.

As you press it, the following window appears. For the moment the only settings available are Accounts, but there may be more in the future. Anyway, press it.

You see a list of accounts, if it's your first time, it'll be empty. Don't worry, just Add one.

For the moment, even though it is a free format text entry, in Domain enter only either identi.ca or twitter.com. If I figure out how to have a combo box, I'll use one instead.

Press OK, select it and close the Window.

Yes, merely selecting chooses that account as your active account, so if you want to switch an account, just:

1. press settings
2. press accounts
3. select the one you want
4. close the settings dialog.

Using gconftool-2

gconftool-2 -s -t string \
            /apps/elmdentica/accounts/account1@identi.ca "myPassword"
gconftool-2 -s -t string \
            /apps/elmdentica/accounts/account2@twitter.com "myOtherPassword"
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/elmdentica/current_account account1@identi.ca

gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/elmdentica/domains/identi.ca "/api"
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/elmdentica/domains/twitter.com ""