On 9/28/07, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/
This is really cool :). Have you thought on adding a warning dialog like gnome-keyring when someone is trying to access this info? (I haven't tried your code yet). Thanks for letting us know! _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
