So a while ago we had a largish discussion about the problem of typing your password for web-related services a bunch of times into different apps; for example into:
* GMail website * Online Desktop sidebar * Pidgin/IM Now this is definitely a problem where you can start in multiple places; after talking with Bryan though, we felt that for services that are strongly web related (e.g. GMail), the natural thing was to sign into the website first. So, I created a small daemon I'm calling "web-login-driver" which simply monitors your Gecko-based browser profile for saved signons, and has a static list of matching fields which applications can act on. For example, if your app can do something GMail related, you can notice the 'GMail' hint and make use of the username/password. The file also includes a bit of code which auto-creates a GMail pidgin account based on the GMail hint. In other words, you sign into GMail, you automatically have a local Pidgin IM setup. http://svn.mugshot.org/online-desktop/trunk/weblogindriver/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
