Comment 3 for bug 1554040

If you're patching client IDs into a program from the debian/ directory, surely it would be just as easy to patch them into the service file as into the source code though, right?

As for Ubuntu One OAuth code, I agree that it's OAuth code is weirdly non-standard (I filed bug 978719 about it way back). However, I'm not sure how your proposed API changes would help with U1: while it isn't using a fixed consumer key and secret, those values are assigned as part of the authorisation process rather than being passed in by the application.