Adding an account

asked 2020-03-14 20:49:37 +0200

Meredith gravatar image

Could someone please tell me how I can add an account that will for example allow me to share photos, web links etc. I am using Sailfish 3.

If I wish to share a photo, in the share part it only has a few accounts there but it doesn't have any of the accounts for things that I have added to the phone such as my chat program etc. So I want to be able share things on accounts that have yet to be added in this part of the phone. I follow the instructions and go to settings-accounts -add account. On that page there are already some accounts there such as facebook, twitter etc. There doesn't seem to be a way to add say a chat account like Signal that I use, or another email account.

Can somebody please tell me, or point me to some documentation that will allow me to add more accounts?

Thank you for anybody who may take the time to reply.

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I'm using email account for sharing. When sharing it opens an email for writing. From three dots in email you can select the account you want to use for sharing. Seems that the documentation of TransferEngine is quite thin currently.

Rikujolla ( 2020-03-14 22:12:15 +0200 )edit

Right at the bottom of the page where you see Facebook,Memotoo, etc, there is 'General email', this is where you can add another account.

As for Signal, there is/was an app on Openrepos called SailSecure (signal client) but the author removed the RPM.

Be sure to read the comments on this post https://openrepos.net/content/schorsch/sailsecure before going any further.

Spam Hunter ( 2020-03-14 22:20:34 +0200 )edit

Thank you for the replies. I will want to add an email program, but for the moment I'm trying to do the follwoing.

I want to be able to take a photo and then I want to send it to people via my Librem Chat app. I don't want another chat app as such. I just want to add Librem Chat to being an account that I can share things with. The same issue arises if I find a web page I want to share. I click share, but I can't add my chat app to the existing apps.

I hope that is a bit clearer?

Meredith ( 2020-03-15 08:47:46 +0200 )edit

I guess Librem Chat is an android app? For android apps like Signal or other ones you could install "Aliendalvik Control" from the publisher Coderus from openrepos.net. That extension allows sharing content from Sailfish to Android Apps and is working very well.

yajo ( 2020-03-15 09:16:59 +0200 )edit

Thanks for the reply. No, Librem is open source and is developed by Purism. It is available in the google store, but its def not android. I'm getting the feeling that adding things here may be a drama. Something that surprises me. I only need Librem Chat and Signal added to this share function. Seems to be hard going.

Meredith ( 2020-03-15 10:48:20 +0200 )edit